She shook her head and then buried it back into her mother. ‘Well, that we might be able to fix,’ I said smiling, ‘you ever eat breakfast at nig...t?’ She shook her head again, but this time she didn’t fall back into Amber. ‘I have eggs, bacon and cereal,’ I listed it on my fingers, ‘I can also make pancakes.’ Lizzy had no poker face. Her eyes lit up when I said pancakes. ‘I prefer pancakes myself,’ I lied. Amber smiled for real. It hit me with more force than I expected. I tried to ignore it. . The law, their failed past, other people they’ve harmed in some way, or even from boredom. Right now, in this part of the world, there are very few men to enforce the laws that civilized people live by, so people like those five men come here to take advantage of the situation. Until there are a lot more people here, we’ll continue to struggle against those kinds of men; and yes, a few women, too.” I gave a snort at the thought of continuing to live as a defender and protector. “Hell, Anna, who. 'What can we do to put a smile back on your face?' she innocently asks. He stalls and looks from Jon who hangs up the phone, to May, mentally finishing off the buttons she hadn’t already opened and back to Jon. 'What’s on the table?' he asks and Jon, without thinking quips 'she is'. She can't believe he’s just done that. They had talked before about inviting in another man but how dare he offer her like some possession to pay off a debt, without any sort of warning. The angry stranger looks. "*****The next pressing problem facing Angelo was school; he was due to beginattending school in two weeks at the High School in Mary Elizabeth'sneighborhood. The school once had been the gem of the city's system,but changing demographics had turned it into a school full truancy,bullying, violence and poor grades. Even though she lived in aneighborhood that retained much of the old working class nature, theschool had changed. Mary Elizabeth frankly was concerned over the fate of a tender,.