“The dead don’t complain.” Messaya shrugged.She walked towards the stone bench and placed a hand on Rhabina’s brow. Roban followed.“She look... somehow different than I remember,” he said standing at the other side of the bench.“She is different, she’s dead. What you see is her soul, her body is only a memory,” Messaya replied.Roban grabbed the linen cloth and pulled it off the body then threw it away. Tilting his head he watched the nude body of Rhabina. Her pale skin, her gracious neck, the. When the doctor comes back in front of me he is holding some kind of blue plastic device. “Ok Tina, lets get you opened up here. Open wide.” I reluctantly open my mouth as the doctor bends over me and somehow collapses the plastic thing, hooking it under my cheeks. When he lets it go it spreads apart causing my mouth to gape open. “There, how is that. Now we can see those pretty whites.” Webster is holding a mirror up and I can see myself. I look up at myself seeing my fearful eyes. She’d only thought about money when agreeing for him to move into the flat. Cass was right: rent split three ways was better all around and the flat was plenty big enough. She thought he’d stay in the background, keep himself to himself as he’d always done, and socialise with Cass, not her. And he worked long hours so wouldn’t interrupt her friendship with Cass. But the boy she’d last seen before university has returned a man – confident, outgoing, and handsome. Gorgeous. His broad lopsided. You know you want it. Hell, you're wet as the river. We've waited long enough."Steve pulled back slightly and she thought he was pulling out. He reversed direction and slammed into her. In two thrusts he was balls deep. He bent and tried to kiss her. She turned her head and he became angry. He had snarled, "You stuck up little cunt. Ya want it and you know it. Now stop playing yer damn games."Steve began withdrawing almost all the way out then slamming back into her. He was hitting her so hard.