‘Did you feel it?’ ‘Whoa, I think we have ourselves a football player in there!’ Matt beamed. ‘Just like his ol’ man.’ ‘And my dad!�...� I added. ‘Yep, a little Matthew Joseph.’ ‘Oh Matt, I like that! Matthew Joseph. After you and dad.’ It was perfect. Matt agreed. Trying to hide my embarrassment, I said, ‘I guess we’ve accomplished one of the things on our list. I suppose you can go frolic.’ He wrapped his arms around me, snuggled in, and gave me an Eskimo-nose kiss. ‘Hmm, okay but first you. Poor girl. Had she but known what was burning through the hunch- backed dwarf's mind, she wouldn't have been so full of self-chastisement. Wafto went through the motions of servitude, starting from the first answering of the door, through the carrying of her bags upstairs to the guest bedroom and the serving of dinner with but one licentious flame lusting in the furnace of his sadistic brain. Soon... soon I will possess this proud beauty, this American bitch who looks at me with such. At this early in the morning, hardly anyone was out. The homeless sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder on the sidewalk sometime overflowed onto the street, which made his job extremely difficult for they refused to move an inch even as the 72 inch tires of a 40-wheeler rolled just inches past their heads.He turned onto 7th avenue and made his way through block after block of decay and destruction. While, yes, there were still some few well-to-do people amidst the utter indigence, their domiciles. "I was- I was scaring her, alright? Look. She's just fine."She wasn't just 'scaring' me, Renee tried to say. The thoughts came shakily into focus. She was going to do it. She was going to do to me, what she did to Katie."While she does look frightened-" he started."Exactly, now if you'll excuse me-"The slam was blocked by a shoe."Not good enough, Em. I'm not going to have her back to me in pieces."A wave of relief ran through Renee. She didn't want the feeling to have been caused by Claude, but.