“Mom, did you help Abigail as well?”“Of course, I did,” Betty answered. “Your sister began her interest in sex earlier than you. It seems th...t it was just past her sixteenth birthday that I found out she had already had intercourse. I found blood on her sheets while doing the laundry, but I knew she wasn’t on her period. So, I just came right out and asked if she’d had sex with her boyfriend. Abbi was very embarrassed, but she admitted that she had.”“Did you have a long talk with her?” Maddi. Laura was reluctantly going along with the arrangement but Mark was obdurate in his resistance. However the Britton's were making it very difficult for him by pressurising the banks to call in the loans the farm owed. "I only want a few more months Jackie but it seems that James is calling on his mates at the bank to force me to sell so I will lose the land and perhaps the house as well. If I wed Laura, I'll probably only have to sell the fields they want for the supermarket. I really don't. "Been awhile then, hasn't it?" Dubois shot back. Damn this chick had brass ones, big brass ones. I could actually like having her around."Not so you'd notice," I answered nonchalantly. "This is our stop. It's time we get back to home sweet home and tell mommy and daddy their little lost sheep have been found." You're serious, aren't you?" she said sounding amused as the doors whooshed open and we walked out onto the platform. I started walking towards my place Dubois at my side Tiernay still. He looked at me and I was surprised at his uncharacteristic reluctance to tell me what the matter was. ‘Mark, please tell me,’ I pleaded. ‘It can’t be that bad, surely?’ ‘Anna is getting better now, she’s out of intensive care and can go home at the end of this week. However…’ he paused again and I took a sip of whisky, feeling the fiery liquid burning its way down to my stomach which was churning with nerves. I waited and he went on. ‘The doctors have asked that she is looked after all the.