”Ava asked me, “Josey, are those pills really supposed to keep a woman from getting pregnant? Does she just take one and she’ll never get pregna...t again? What happens if she wants to get pregnant later?”“Well, the way it was explained to me - a woman starts taking them the day after her period ends, and she takes one a day - for three weeks. They said you’d have to take them a full month, before you stopped using your other methods of birth control, just to be sure you don’t get pregnant.”Ava. As for my business habits, Marley and I were partners in a local establishment that lent money to those who needed it. We were not "loan sharks" but had reasonable rates. To be honest about that, Marley wasn't too happy about our rates and tried to raise the often enough that it tended to raise a little bitterness between the two of us because I stood fast. We were making more than enough money and I had even suggested lowering out rates in order to bring in more business. Marley would have. Yolande greets me effusively. Taller than most women, mid- thirties I guess, bobbed blond hair, beautifully groomed with killer heels and a short, above the knee black dress. “My man is almost twenty years older than me with kinky sexual tastes. Come into our games room and meet him.”The room is dimly lit with all sorts of strange equipment and mirrors on all the walls and ceiling. “This is my man Max, Michael,” she tells me as I look at a totally naked man sitting in a large throne like chair. Her hand swung out and slapped the tall black man in the face, and before she could shout he swung his own hand, smacking her right back in the face, causing her to tumble to the floor and starting to cry. The stranger’s eyes swung from her convulsing and bawling form back to her father’s, and he nodded casually, then told her father that eighteen-hundred was good.Alexandra felt a horrible pit of icy betrayal in her stomach when her father nodded. The black man pulled out a sick thick wad of.