So many tears to shed before she appreciates her new role inlife"And with that I heard him walk towards the bedroom and open thedoor...what on earth w...s he doing? I desperately tried to crane my neck tosee but it was hopeless, my protests muffled squeals. I heard drawersopening, papers shuffling and the tapping of a computer (my computer!)keyboard. A feeling of absolute dread began to fill me. I left pretty mucheverything open on my home computer, messenger, email, facebook....and I'dtold him. I reloaded carefully as a horseman galloped past. I glanced up as I rammed the ball home in time to see him wheel and start back toward me. I primed quickly and shot him off his horse at about twenty yards. He was lying on the ground, kicking, when I ran past him as we withdrew to the next line and filled in wherever we could. I had time to notice that I had hit him just above where his white belts crossed, just about where I aimed.Out of the woods came Tarleton's main force, a mass of mixed. I don't try to question how any of us meet and come together as something much more than drifting strangers or close friends, or as two that seem to know every instinct and mood of the other on a level growing deeper with each passing day. I don't question the way you softly breathe or how the air your sleeping frame releases from your lungs grazes the arm I have wrapped around you like a light and warm gust of wind. I don’t question the way your body adjusts slightly to snuggle, to get even. Nevertheless, she knew that if her family saw how she had been treated and how she had sunk to such depths of humiliation, she would be shunned by them and she would never be able to see her nieces again. So, she had to find some way to placate Master Joe and persuade him not to post the video as he had threatened.Slowly, she rose from the floor, and began to walk nervously back and forth. As she paced up and down, Abbey realised that there was nothing that she could offer Joe that she had not.