Still grasping my hand she said “Matt’s told me all about you” I stared back at her she must have been around 35 years old, had a pretty face bu... looked like a slaggy girl, someone who would date guys much older than her with criminal records or who would throw their weight around at school. How dare she try to take Matt from me? what did he see in her? I tutted and said out of jealously “well he’s never mentioned you” “That put her in her place I thought.” she laughed and said “I don’t imagine. When Rebecca comprehended the scope of my music collection her eyes grew large. She went to the nearest cabinet and pulled open a drawer. By accident the drawer contained Bach pieces."Ooooh. You have all this Bach, we could do some Bach. No wait. That's no good. You know what Bach does to me. You'd try to molest me, and I wouldn't be able to resist." She was like a very naughty little girl in a candy store."We'll save the molesting for later. What else do you have? How about Beethoven? He. I was so ignorant of Hadiya’s culture. She could teach me as much as I taught I her.For now I let my fingers do the talking -- or walking, in this case. I started washing her from the top, soaping her head, the left side smooth with very short, soft hair, the right with its scars not so smooth.It sure wasn’t going to be a bath like her mom gave her.From the crown of her head I ran my soapy fingers over her face, her lips and cheeks. I didn’t avoid the damaged parts, not her empty eye socket,. He stroked Carly’s black locks in quiet satisfaction. * Katherine snapped the telephone shut and stubbed her cigarette out. She twisted it into the ashtray on the side table of her favourite open air cafe. She had only picked up the habit since starting work for Joshua and wished she could kick it. But at least she had weaned herself off the marijuana. She glanced again at the phone, wondering if he was entertaining another of his girls. It used to be her that he would spend time with,.