Third, she immediately took off, and fourth, she apparently quit her job, giving up her earnings for no known reason.’ He looked down at the bar, si...ting through his thoughts, trying to find the patterns that could lead to an explanation. ‘Hello again, gents. How can I help you tonight?’ Carrie batted her eyelashes at them, smiling coyly. Jake decided to do the questioning. ‘You’re Ellie’s closest friend here, correct?’ ‘Yes sir.’ Now she looked a bit nonplussed. ‘Do you have any idea where. You know it, don’t you?”David would not have taken that nagging from anyone else, but had nodded disconsolately. He knew it all right, but also knew he wouldn’t be able to leave the children in a stranger’s care. His parents were too far away, and Gwen’s even further, and the two grandmothers had already given all the time they could after the funeral.They left it at that, Alex extracting a reluctant promise that David would look for a nanny, or a nursery. Alex had not been back.David felt the. I hoped to God old Brian Devlin would get himself shipped over the mountains and become the bitch to some three hundred pound scumbag for the next five years. Not for stealing a bunch of hi-fi's and record players, but for what he had done and what he was going to do to Tabby."What about Shepard?" I asked."Oh he's not going to be a problem. He couldn't wait to roll over on Devlin when he found out the sheriff was already there to arrest him. He's going to spend the night in jail and I don't. He spoke to me and then turned on the TV and the VCR and he could see what I'd been watching. He obviously didn't believe me when I told him I'd been asleep and he poured us two big drinks of the brandy in those funny, fat glasses they serve the stuff in. We talked... sort of. Or argued. He got a hand under the bedclothes on my pussy and I know he could tell that I'd been turned on by the video. I accused him of raping me... which he has twice, sort of, but he didn't stop.He's a real bastard.