"Straight to her phone, as if we had any doubt that she's really a girl,"dad jokes, making me and mum both chuckle."Who are you texting?" Mum enquires..."Sarah," I answer. "Hopefully she's free, I really, really want to seeher today, if just to show her this!" I happily hold up the prescriptionthat I'm eager to hand in at the pharmacist. Mum smiles, clearly happy athow happy I seem.And I am. The last 24 hours have been like a tornado, tearing my old lifeto pieces but unlike a tornado, rebuilding. I'm not using you to get over Maddie because I care for you too much to let that happen. I could have pushed you away Friday night, but I believed that we had something between us that would have developed after Maddie and I broke up, regardless of the timetable.Almost all of my relationships ended with the other person breaking up with me. If you ever decide to do that, I'll be hurt deeply, but I'll find a way to leave you in the past as well. But you'll never have to worry about me leaving. ”“Make it twenty, plus five boxes of .44s and I’ll buy ten extra boxes of .44s in the deal.”“You just bought yourself two fine used guns, Mister.”“You wouldn’t mind if my wife runs a load of .44s through each of them before I pay for them, would you?”“Step out on the back porch and I’ll bring both of them out with a free box of bullets.”Jeremiah thumbed ten .44 cartridges through the side loading gate on the Winchester, then chambered a cartridge with the lever. He let the hammer down, hefting. Tom grabbed Ana’s waist and he pulled her out from his body. He woke up and went to the bathroom. Then I helped Ana stand on her wobbly legs and held her tightly. She whispered in my ear that she loved me for allowing her to get fucked like that for those nigger bastards…I murmured back that she was absolutely the sexiest bitch I had ever known. Anita asked me to guide her to our bedroom.When we got there, Ana fell down into our marital bed. She asked me to put her on a blindfold and tie her.