His ribs were bandaged, his head swathed like a mummy, a slight pink cast to part of the white. His face was a mass of scratches and his legs were cov...red in road rash. ‘Buddy,’ she said quietly. ‘You look like shit. You’ve got to wake up, the press wants to make you a hero for getting run down by a car. You can’t let all those women out there see you like this. It’s bad for the image, Dean.’ A sob shook her shoulders and she sank down on the small chair next to the bed, her hand lying on his. Now giveme your arm." I was given at least three injections. When I asked whatthey were I was slapped so hard that I fell over."First rule," said Delis, "I don't want to hear your voice for the nextten days unless I address you. If I hear it I will gag you for the restof the time, including meals and sleep. But since you ask, this time Iwill tell you. I have given you another large dose of female hormones.This is to weaken you muscles and to make your breasts sensitive, theother injections are. I quickly turned away, embarrassed at being ‘caught’ in a strip joint by someone I barely knew. My eyes followed her around the room by staring at her via the bar mirror. Somehow the music faded away and my mind became clearer as I kept my eyes on her. Her beauty put me in a trance. Before I knew it, she was standing beside me, waiting for me to take my beer off of her cocktail tray. I did a double-take to make sure it was her. She smiled and nodded at me as if to say, ‘yes it is who you. Jacob brought her back here to help with the animals and that is all."Susan's eyes turned toward Jacob."I bet he did," she sneered. "What did it cost for her?" My brother's life," Ann answered before Jacob could speak. "My brother tied to kill Jacob but was too slow. He could have made me a whore, you know. He could have sold me that day or turned me into one on the trail. But instead he hired me on to work here. I earned my keep, you little bitch, on the back of a horse. How do you earn yours?.