Hand in hand, we walked toward the house where the activity, such as it was, was taking place. A policeman stopped us. Morgan said, “That’s my mot...er’s house. I was coming to check on her since she didn’t come to work today.”He looked at me. “Who are you?”“I’m her fiancé. We’ve been concerned all day today.”“Go ahead. The detectives will want to talk.” We walked to the house. I could see Susan’s SUV in the drive just beyond where we were.Two plainclothes people were just inside. Morgan asked,. "I have shaped you in many other ways, too, emotionally and sexually aswell as physically. I have transformed you into quite an interesting, ifrather bizarre, specimen." Bitch," Tiffany said, spitting the word from her mouth as if it werepoison. She was no longer frightened of the sorceress. Charisma hadmolded her body and twisted her mind. What worse thing could she do toher? Nothing."I also gave you the locket that makes you long for my company wheneverwe are separate."Tiffany's hand seized. Between living with Richie and then Vanessa. Walker nude, tonight I’m wearing one of my ex’s long dress shirts.In bed, Walker sighs softly, a little boy sigh of contentment. So happy to spoon back into me. I kiss the back of his neck like I used to do all the time. I’m circling his little nipples with a middle finger fingernail. I wonder to myself, ‘Is a friendly, goodnight blowjob really that much different from a friendly, goodnight hand job?’Answer: yes.I trail my right hand down over his. My neighbors were all black. The shopkeepers in my part of town wereall black. The men who jammed into the nightclubs were all black. Itwas as if I had been dropped into a different world, a world wherepolicemen couldn't be trusted and the rules were for the white people.Which didn't include me.As I moved around the grocery stores of my neighborhood, talkingcasually to my new neighbors, I found that I had some catching up todo. Someone asked me about the new Tyler Perry movie. I hadn't seen.