"No," I repeated, lifting my gaze to look at Geo, certain about how I felt. "No more. If you want to get pregnant, you are going to have to either tal... John into it, or find someone else. I'm done." But..." Geo trailed off, and if I hadn't felt bad for her, I would have laughed at the way her mouth hung open as she looked at me, not comprehending what I'd just told her. "But..." You heard him," Lisa said, coming up, and placing her hands on my cast covered shoulder as she gave me a soft peck on. She shook her head, “Not really, he knew that I didn’t want to stay with him, but he wouldn’t listen to mummy or me which was why we asked for the town’s protection.” She looked puzzled for a moment, “I don’t know why they didn’t stop that man from taking me . . . they should have done.”She stopped talking and looked at me, “What shall we do now daddy John?” She asked me.I looked at the time and then said, “Well I think you need something to eat now, you are still a growing girl.” I said. ‘Commercial? No, he was in the road building business,’ she explained, ‘until he got killed,’ her voice trailed off. ‘I’m trying to keep the business going, HERE, HERE, THERE, you passed it,’ she turned to look out the back window, a drained look on her face. I turned around at the next cross street and we headed back to Harmon Way. We drove over crushed stone that made a scrunching sound under the tires. Five guys were gathered around two pieces of road equipment and a dump truck. There was an. “Why did you use the leash? You know I would follow if you told me to, but this is humiliating. You have never treated me like a slave before today, and I don’t understand what changed.”“I’m not trying to humiliate you, my love,” he said softly. “I simply wanted to make you think about something. You’ve been nervous all week, thinking about your parents coming to visit and wondering what they would think of your new lifestyle. I felt you needed a reminder that you didn’t have any choice. I do.