Enjoy.MariahBy Verna BensonDavid didn't understand the ramifications of what his wifemeant when, as he drifted off to sleep, she told himgoodbye. He a...d Lesley had been talking divorce and thatnight, over too many glasses of wine, they'd agreed tofinally go ahead and end their marriage. David had beenagainst it: He still loved Lesley, but she was determinedto move on.When David woke up he was not in his bed. He was severelybound in a Lucite box on the floor of the back of a movingtruck. Various. Elsewhere...Although he couldn't see anything, Gregory could hear that the tortureof the other man in the house had stopped. A few minutes later, he couldhear the click-click of two pairs of high heeled shoes, and knew thathis captures were coming."Well, Gregory, are you ready to pay for your crimes?" asked Sara."Sara, you don't want to do this. Itzel is poisoning your mind. I havedone nothing to you, in fact I risked a great deal to find you, and totell you my story," Gregory said."But you. However I have a huge concern. I sign, "Jennifer, please inform me the generator is housed in its own building."Jennifer replies, "No they are in metal enclosures outside."Masha (being who she is) realizes what I am leading to and she cautions, "Ms. Donaldson, the bees will swarm the generator and soon disable it. Do you possibly have a contingency plan for this event?"Present – Jens – In the tunnelsHell no I don't have a fucking contingency plan for any of these events! Who in the hell would. . Don't you think she'd rather stay?"I shivered, not liking that picture very much at all and not really understanding what he was trying to tell me. A girl couldn't be a slave longer than twenty years, not a freeborn one anyway, and that was what I was. He'd have to let me go and most freeborn were set free after just a year or two. My mom had been a slave from thirteen until she was barely twenty and her Master had set her free so she could marry my daddy. We were the minority, less than ten.