" The nurse gave him a dirty look and showed her reluctance as she turned to leave, lingering only long enough to give Mark one more sip of water.As i... the detective hadn't interrupted, Mike continued. "Then the filthy bastard pointed his gun at me and the woman on the floor with the bullet in her shoved me out of the way and took the slug herself. Now you want to arrest me, go right ahead and I'll just add one more charge to the lawsuit I plan to bring against you, the city, the glob of shit. " Hmm, yes. See what you mean. Never been my goal to be like the rest of the herd." But one other feature that was mentioned was your knowledge of the UK as a source of product. All of your clients said that was a big feature and important to them as well. It seems there some markets where UK product is a plus and you're definitely seen as the expert." OK, that's encouraging anyway. Any others?" I shook my head. Freddie looked concerned but pressed on. "How about weaknesses?" Well, something. ” I had a big smile on my face, excited that I had a chance to be with her again and after quickly running home to clean up a little, I waited impatiently. As I sat there, I started to worry that she’d text me saying something came up or to say she couldn’t for some reason, but she never did.As I pulled up to her apartment building and parked, I was apprehensive about going through with it, but I was there and so I took a deep breath, and headed up to her apartment.It was a nice com-plex, clean. But that piece of inhumanity she called her husband enjoyed hearing her scream as she was taken, time and again."I looked at Judy sitting there and wringing her hands. I felt for her, and so I got up, went around the table and hugged her. She stood, and then Rachel was there, too, and we all held each other, and the women cried, their sadness matching my own, and I felt a deep sense of loss and shame. Loss for our mom, and Judy's friend, and shame for what the man she had married had done to.