She’ll live. Your bastard is dead, though.” She licked her lips, cleaning the blood from them.“You ... you...” I looked back to the couch. Eri...a was coming back to her senses.“Oh God,” she cried, reaching down and finding blood everywhere. “Please call an ambulance!”Another couch ruined. At least it wasn’t mine this time.Spontaneous miscarriage, they had said. I knew the truth. Erica had been freaked right out by what had happened and asked us to leave while the paramedics were working on. Milo says I can help you pay your bill here, give you a roof over your head, feed you for now, of course you will have to pay me back out of your earnings. He says I’m not one to sugar coat something, I’m a pimp and you would be one of my whores. I get 75% and you get 25% of what you earn. There is not much I can do with you until I get your health certification, so for the time being you will be limited to blow and hand jobs, at about fifty bucks a pop. So what do you say you can take my empty. "I...Said...Screw Satan, asswipe" No, No, that is what YOU are going to be doing in..."I looked at my pretend watch here."5 seconds," feigning surprise."Hey, Alex what should we do with him?"I didn't look up as a bullet came out of nowhere and rattled around the sheriff's skull."That is what we should do with that asshole," he shouted obscenely loud, fighting for breath over his giggling.I stood up and wiped the blood off my face, throwing the hanky at Alex. He was a mirror of me in every way,. They're proud to have been a part of that. A few of them even cried when they saw me." That's good," he said. "I think the fighting spirit of our people is going to be a major factor in this thing — something the WestHems haven't counted on." So you think we're going to hold New Pittsburgh?" she asked.He nodded. "Yes, I think we're going to hold it. The WestHems have taken a hell of a beating clearing our first lines here. They're in the middle of their refuel and rearm about twelve klicks west.