..” Amber grumbled. “He almost killed you!”“He was unconscious,” Ember countered. “And I needed to find out if’n I’d kilt him or not.�...�“You broke my leg, you bitch!” Rick yelled up at the heavy wooden ceiling. “You get me outta here! You gotta set my leg or I’ll be crippled the rest of my life. You hear me?”“A dirty old cripple can’t go ‘round beatin’ up girls and rapin’ them, so you can just stay down there ‘til your fuckin’ leg rots off, you asshole!” Amber screamed down at the floor. “I hope. "General Washington's coming down from New York, his high and mightyness hisself, and he's got a French army with him, a big one, with heavy guns that are coming by sea. We also hear rumors that the French fleet is on the way to the Chesapeake. They should be here by the end of the month or early September." I'll be damned," I said. "And Cornwallis." We think he's left Portsmouth completely, and he's waiting for supplies, but you can go down there next week and make sure. Right now, go help. " Okay, so you want to go get something to eat before our business? " Yes, Lori, of course." Okay, get in the car."She drives a new black dodge charger. It is extra clean and is smelling extra good. It smells of leather inside the car too and I love it. The seats are made of black leather. She seems to like it too. There's a blue hard case suitcase in the back seat too.Lori begins to ask, "Should we do Starbucks?" Yes, Starbucks is fine." Okay, away we go."She drives us off to Starbucks and. We had a enormous house and a fantastic lifestyle. The only thing we were missing was kids.We had been trying off and on for the past several years to get pregnant, to no avail. At first, we hadn’t tried that hard. But, as the years went by, our desire for a child grew exponentially. We tried everything, but after several uneventful years, we were still childless. At one point, when Cindy thought she might be the reason why she could not get pregnant, she suggested we use a surrogate. I balked.