As I got closer to them, I saw why. One of the guys was her beach buddy! That’s why she avoided my question and that’s why she wanted to come here... He must have told her where he was going to be tonight! At that moment I felt like a fool and a bit betrayed so I was gonna take this to the limit! When I arrived, she was like a kid with their hands caught in the cookie jar. She closed up her legs and said “Oh hi!” in a surprised tone. I said “Give it up. I know now why we’re here.” After a second. We’ll see where they lead us,” the one who appeared to be in charge told Ski.I finished the last piece of equipment needing repair a short time after they left and went to find Ski.“I’m finished with the equipment,” I told him when I found him. He turned and looked at me incredulously.“You’re sure!” he asked.“Yes, you can go out and fire each one up if you don’t believe me,” I told him.“It would have taken those bums working for me three or four days with overtime to fix that much equipment,”. By now they were probably one of the bigger sources of cash coming into the town from the outside. They would have to buy food, and a pretty large amount of it, to feed a dozen or more girls, and that many guards. In between auctions they probably had less staff, but Taylor doubted it ever emptied out. There were also clothes, toiletries, general first aid supplies, which they probably bought locally.And that didn’t include the men who’d show up around the time of auctions. They were probably. When we moved, we sat down around the tablefor seven nights in a row, do you remember those meetings? We studied ouroptions. We looked at the pros and cons. I would like to think that whenwe did move, it was based on a mutual decision.".....Sis and I both figured the move was what Mom wanted, but to be fairshe had tried to include us in the decision as much as she could......"You included me Mom, and you included Sis too. And you aredisappointed that I did not include you in my big decision, I.