Chantel lay back. She could feel the blood coursing her veins in the rhythm of her pounding heart. Fear. A cold sweat sprang from her flesh as she rea...ised that she could only be in one place that she knew of. Veronica and Janet's training facility. It seemed like hours. Hours of waiting and fear. Chantel knew what lay before her. Who better? Had she not ordered the fate of Aisha like a woman selecting from a shopping list? Had she not pored over the possibilities of surgical work that could. ” She drew her hand away from him gently. “Maybe I should go back there and see if I can get us some closure.”“No, no, no,” Maxamed hissed. “Never go back there. It wants you.” He looked around the room like a hunted animal. “Where are the children?”“At my mother’s.” Khadra sighed. She missed the kids. They were always at her parents’ recently.“Good, good.” Maxamed nodded and leaned onto Khadra’s shoulder with all his weight. “You are mine and it cannot have you,” he whispered in her ear. “I. More than a few of the older men treated me like I was a young member of their family. But there were a few I got a little raunchy with. And there was no sex for close to a year. Well, I had fun when I rotated into Europe, but in country it was a big zero. The guys I hung and drank with were all older, by a lot. I was 23 at the time. I was drinking with my 3 favorite guys on a Monday night (always a bad thing) when I was scheduled to fly out on Tuesday evening. Always a lot of sex talk. " Yes, I did. I need you to get in touch with our instant intimidation firm. We'll need plenty of security goons stationed at the new house twenty-four hours a day. Her husband is a very big man and has a propensity for violence," Titus said."Get eight hundred pounds of goons," Hagar said writing it down in a small notepad."Take her by the police station to file an assault complaint against her husband. Talk to patrolman Reynolds. He's sweet on her and will expedite the matter," Titus said.