." the older woman mused, "But I didn't recognize the voice. I mean I thought it was the state police and all." I'd kick him right square in the balls..." Sue Ann snarled. "Fuck probation. I'd kick him right in the balls, show him not to fuck with me." Let's think on it, honey," Adele said putting her arm around Sue Ann's shoulders. "Y'all got any old boyfriends might be mad at you?" No, I don't have any boyfriends," Sue Ann said glumly."Anyone ask you out, and you maybe turned 'em down?" Naw,. " A teacher," he repeated, stroking my hair with a sausage-size finger. I was reminded of Lenny, in John Steinbeck's novel, "Of Mice and Men," and how the big, slow-witted sharecropper accidentally breaks the neck of Candy's wife while he's petting her hair in the barn."That's right."He continued to stroke my hair. "A English teacher, at the college." Yes." I refrained from correcting his grammar. I just wanted to leave. I just wanted to escape, to get home."You're pretty," he declared,. Charles would always be a stumbling block in the way of crooked politicians and the people who manipulate them. My job - self-appointed – was to separate the garden-variety crooks from those willing to kill for more power, money, or control.Jack and I talked at great length about the need to find out where these people were coming from, and how to use information to cut them off from any attempt to harm Charles. When Jason turned out to be the person who sold out Charles and got my entire crew. He saw his wife frown at the sight of the slave girl and he could easily understand her concern. The girl was truly beautiful and her nicely curved flesh was visible to onlookers due to the unfortunate sheerness of the fabric draped about her lovely torso. Her collar and her wrist shackle labeled her as property and his wife must have understood her role in his entourage.Most of the male members of the tribe had their share of mistresses but he was not typical and had no female staff in his.