”“How long have you been … spending time with him?”“About a month.”“He should have told you he is seeing me,” said Mom. “That was di...honest of him.”“Well, you shouldn’t be sleeping with him, Mom. He’s young enough to be your son!”My tone and expression were resentful. Mom leaned forward and put her hands on both sides of my face.“Yes, chérie, he’s too young for me. But he’s too old for you.”“I don’t care!” I shouted. “I just want someone to hold me and appreciate me as a person! Someone to make. Maryann came up the street. “I’m happy to see that your water problem is fixed. We don’t see much of you girls these days. You two have become nice looking women.”“Thank you for the compliment. You are looking good yourself. But the water problem fixed? I wish. But someone is coming to help.”We chatted a bit. I mentioned that yesterday I took a cruise group to Baker’s beach. I managed to get everyone on the bus naked within 5 minutes after leaving the port area. Maryann commented that cruise. "Heidi, you don't have to go with him. I can find a place for you to go where you can be safe, where you don't have to worry about him hurting you anymore. You can press charges—"She was shaking her head adamantly, looking towards the exit. "You don't understand. It's not the way you think. I love him and he loves me. He just wants me to live up to my potential and he doesn't like it when I don't, that's all." She turned her pleading eyes back to Jack. "Please, just forget it, OK? I just really. The fact that the initial medical malpractice case was more complex than I realized, even on the surface, such a case, or cases in this matter, were both very hard to prove and yet can be very lucrative. Even more so as there was only one other firm to have handled the matter and we wouldn’t have to split fees as they were a named party to the malpractice. Also, they had documented in writing to the prospective client insisting that they would waive their fees in the first case; likely to get.