We stayed one more night, and headed for Wildcat Branch.After we got home, I had a huge list of work I needed to get done. I worked on preparing the s...il in the garden. I fixed up the fence and checked on the stock. After a few disagreements the stallions were functioning in an uneasy peace. Red had given us a beautiful sorrel filly with three white stockings. War Bonnet and Scout had indeed given us a beautiful colt, splotched and spotted. Mouse had given us a steel dust filly.Our Hereford. ‘What did you do?’ she asked, amazed at the absolutely freeing way it felt to be without the pain her father enjoyed inflicting. ‘I took away your pain so that you might better understand my magick,’ Switch said with a bow that had his long golden hair sweeping over the wide-bladed grass. ‘As for your other wish, to become like those who live their lives under the sea, you must be certain that this is truly what you want.’ ‘If it is to be a choice of dealing with my father’s perversions and his. She motioned with her eyes for him to go dance with one of the girls who had been eyeing him since they walked in. The girl's date had not asked her to dance yet and he seemed content to stand and talk with some of the other guys. Brad went over and asked the girl to dance. As he led her onto the dance floor, all eyes followed them and several of the boys snickered, figuring that he would make a fool of himself.Brad made sure that he danced as well as he ever had. He carried on a conversation. She felt a hand on her bare thigh, sliding upwards into her undergarments, touching her in her most intimate places, and she screamed as cruel fingers painfully invaded her. She was pushed to the hard ground, her dress riding up around her waist, and she looked on in horror as one of the men stood before her, pulling down his breeches. ‘Don’t be afraid my pretty, it won’t hurt,’ he laughed, as two of the other men held her arms, pinning her down. As he loomed over her, Tamara closed her eyes.