Maybe ya'd be interested in what I have ta offer. Bring yer beer over ta those chairs aside the wall, an' I'll tell ya my proposition."Well, I'd alrea...y had too much beer, so I wasn't thinking as straight as maybe I should have been, but I went with the guy. We sat down and started talking. He asked my name, so I told him, and he told me his."Well, Jeremiah, ya look like a sturdy sort of feller an' I'm in need of a bodyguard. I sell snake oil off the back of a reworked wagon, an' sometimes the. She’d weathered prissy young misses, foreign mail order brides fraught with nerves, and lame old men before. She could do it again. As soon as the train stopped passengers alighted. Kate watched, waiting. One man caught her eye as soon as he departed, as she was sure he caught the eye of every woman. He was tall, very tall, and broad. Underneath his denim shirt she was sure were corded muscles. His jeans were tightly molded to the finest pair of legs she’d ever seen. His hair was black as. No, it was the phone. I rolled over and looked at the clock. 9:45. No one ever called around this time of the morning, so I had one guess as to who it was."Hey, Mrs. C." In my sleepy haze and due to his convincing nature, I agreed to meet him at 11:00 at a coffee shop near my sons's school.***Billy was already there when I arrived. He was sitting at a table in the back corner, away from the prying eyes. I had dressed in the most conservative skirt and blouse I owned. I sat at the table with him. A few days later the first of many calls came. He got my number from a mutual friend. A girl I really didn't know all that well. He asked me out. I had to decline, I told him thetruth, I was seeing somebody. He accepted it and wished me well. There was more I didn't tell him. He was considerably older than I was. I was 20 he was close to 40. But there was something about him that bothered me. He kind of gave me the creeps. He had a slight limp and an eyelid that was always half shut that gave.