I told her I was self-employed and that my hours were my own. Work was slow this morning anyway. She thanked me for stopping several times and each ti...e I told her not to even think about it. I was just happy to be of help.I replaced the gas cap and closed the filler door. I asked her to get into the car and that I hoped the battery was still charged enough to pull the gas from the tank to the engine. She turned on the key and after a few seconds the engine sputtered and tried to start. A. I know a place a little ways away that's a fair distance from any nearby houses that I could try." You're talking about poaching then, aren't you?" Linda asked."Linda, desperate times," Ellen reminded her."Hey, if it keeps all of you safe, I'm willing to pay a fine for poaching, or even for trespassing, though I don't think it'll come down to that. Right now everyone is stretched to the limit. The fish and game people are trying to clear the waterways and open the roads to the parks; they're. ”“I don’t want want to involve authorities if I can help it,” I told her.“Then your only other alternative is Donald, I’m afraid,” she said. “She’s obviously turned violent. Has she hit you?”“Yes, she has,” I told her. I trusted Dr. Spencer more than anyone else I knew except maybe Emma.“Call the police and then Donald,” was her advice. “She needs to be taken into custody.“She’s a school teacher. If I do that...” I left that hanging in the air.“Fuck her,” she said flatly. “In her current. Both my older brothers were away at summer camp and my single-parent mother decided to enroll me in a summer program for kids sponsored by the city.The program was held on the school grounds close to our house and had all kinds of activities to keep us entertained. We weren't all that well supervised, they just didn't have enough volunteers to keep track of all the kids all of the time.What happened was that I had begun to develop an attraction to this girl in my group. I can't remember her.