She cradled and held me like a baby until I was completely at peace."Can you talk?" She asked with a concerned look.A big smile spread across my face ...s we made eye contact again. "Did you know how wonderful you are?"For a moment we laughed, then her expression changed back to serious. "I'm sorry... about not calling you. There were some problems."What sort of problems? I wondered, knowing that they couldn't possibly be any worse than I had imagined. But it was better not to ask. I figured when. Mary and he had insisted Alyson wear it. He'd had to half-drag Mary to the beach against the pressure of the wind. It hadn't been easy swimming in his canvas deck shoes, despite his almost legendary endurance, but he knew he'd need them on the island since neither Alyson nor Mary had any.Lightning struck another tree on a hill, reminding him of how exposed they were."Come on! We have to get off the beach. Don't stand up or you'll attract lightning."They were all too tired to do more than crawl. Hell, I didn’t care what he did to her, after all she was drunk, I had money, and he did get her into the car.At home I had a hard time getting her into the house, but eventually I did it. I couldn’t get her up the stairs to her bedroom so I lowered her down to the floor. I removed her blouse and her miniskirt leaving her there naked.I hollered in her ear, “Masturbate for me.”In her sedated state Mom reached down, opened her pussy, and started rubbing her clit. Then she dozed off again.I looked. The passage started like this:"He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar withgrief....."It pierced her, going through the armor she had built around herself,striking her right in her heart. Here was someone like her! Maybe not withthe same problem, but someone who was a servant of God, but wouldunderstand what she went through. But who was this man? Why did the prophet talk about him? And how did thatjibe with the official view of the Messiah? She did not know, but she.