She’ll also have a scar on her thigh for the rest of her life, but from what I hear she can be proud of it. She’s not the first gunshot victim we�...�ve sewn back together who rated the label of hero ... or I should say heroine.”The doctor walked me back to the waiting room, and then took two of the girls for a peek at Elsa, and then a minute or two later, the other two. There seemed nothing more we could do. Melanie opted to stay with Cindy at the hospital for a while, and the rest of us went back. {It matters not}Alatem's uncle said, {The bastard was never good for much any way, his being killed will give me even more right to take the throne}he laughed evilly.Alatem's face twisted into a mask of rage, the coward was attacking them and claiming he was the rightful ruler? Charles had to hold her back when she tried to grab the atomizer and beam down to where her uncle was."It's alright Allie, I wanted them to know we had to do something bring them out in the open, Alatem looked at Charles. Then, whenever she felt like it, she would reappear.One product of her visits was that both Jake and Sue could now make themselves understood in three languages, and could cope with a fourth. They still spoke to each other in an odd mixture of English and Comanche, with some Shoshone thrown in, but if they wished they could converse in just one. They weren't yet fluent, but they were getting there. Dove's native Ute, which she used sometimes when she spoke with them late at night, was becoming. As we drove to his house, the struggle between guilt and excitement continued. This wasn't the first time I'd thought about it after finding out about his affair, but I had always talked myself out of it before it got this far.I kept telling myself that I was just going to take off my pants and lay back on the bed. He could get his jollies, I could prove to myself that I still had some control over my own life--even after years of not daring to sneeze without prior permission--and I would be on.