"Ida stood straighter and backed up to her naked husband and laid the back of her head against his thick barrel chest. "Oh, Hon," she told him, rubbin... her head back and forth, "it ain't like you was tryin' to be a slacker. You are about the steadiest one man I ever seen in my whole life. There has to be a way for us and you'll find it, I just know you will." He kissed the top of her head and put the still damp clothes on.The first time Harley Duran came to the town of Woodman, he was hungry. It was then that the running boys returned with their fathers, and with the frightened mother of the fallen boy. And there they found the least expected person in the village engaged in an act of genuine goodness.With a little help from one of the fathers, who had thought to bring rope (of which there was plenty in the village, for the making of hempen ropes was one of the trades by which Crothin made its way in the world) Pavel managed to thread a noose under the shoulders of the boy, and knot. I somehow knew this wouldn’t be the last time something like that would happen, i wasn’t to wait much longer to find outIt was three weeks later when i made sure i was about when sue came for her daily routine looking after mum , sue seem very pleased to see me again, once again she went straight up stairs to mother, i could hear her chatting to mother even if mother couldn’t chat back, but i heared what i was hoping tohera“would you like your lovely son to help us wash you again?” my heart. 'It's him,' I think. I slowly wrap my arms around him, relieved. He pulls away.“You didn't know it was me, did you?” he asks The dark makes him impossible to see. I nod ans mumble, “Yes”, quietly.He kisses me again, I can feel his smile. He pulls me further into the room. He pushes me onto the bed and gets on top of me.He kisses me down to my chest and pulls off my shirt. He unhooks my bra from the front and continues to kiss me.He pulls away and stands away from the bed. I stare into the dark.