"Cain't fuck like that." Ed snatched the sheet away with one swift tug."ED! GODDAMN IT!" Velma wailed, vainly trying to figure out what to cover and h...w."Told ya!" Ed waded in, wrestling with her to keep her from tearing up the bed to cover herself. Goddamn woman was STRONG! Ed finally had to sit on her to get adequate leverage, mostly by denying her air. "Settle the fuck down!"Velma's cheeks were wet, her eyes full of tears of pain and humiliation. "This jus' wrong! Ah cain't..." Shut.... He makes one more trip to the garage to get the pile of boxes that all of the drawers and closets contents will go into temporarily. He starts unloading the dresser contents into the boxes. Next he unloads the armoire then the night stands. He takes the pictures off of the walls and the shoes off of the floor, stuffs them into boxes, and takes everything into the spare bedroom. ‘Well, that’s the easy part,’ he says to nobody in particular, obviously because there is nobody in particular there. Today, Kelly was very glad that thedespondent young man she had once been had not been able to pull thetrigger.* * *Tears rolled down Kelly's face in uncontrolled torrents as she recalledher past. Spasms wracked her chest as she tried to suppress the sobs shehad never been able to let out for Jason's terrible life.The next thing Kelly knew, a firm hand cupped her chin and a thumb wipedthe tears from her right cheek. Softly, Brendan said, "Sweetie, don'tcry. It's OK."Violently, Kelly shook her. They had met while she was doing her management training at Winchester but then he was posted to Andover and seemed to be constantly on the move: Afghanistan, Turkey, and now Poland. It was not Mike’s fault and the army was his chosen career. It seemed he was considered to be doing very well to be selected to attend the staff college. He certainly had been delighted and had indicated rather vaguely that having a year plus in one place might be the time for them to marry. On the other hand he.