We each had a shopping list of wants. Doris and I planned to pick up on a freezer or three to keep at the Stover's place with some kind of generator b...ckup. It was a cobbled together plan but it was a plan. We could operate better when we knew more.No one was around when we drove up and went inside. Inside, we could tell that a few people had been there from the blank spots where food had been. Whether these people were still alive was conjecture at this point. Charlie and I had guns and Doris. They had been foisted upon her 18 years ago by her first boyfriend, Ken. A large, abusive lout of an older man, he had paid for them himself a year after her daughter had been born, just as Chrissy turned 18, legal age in her state, as part of his insidious but relentless and ultimately successful effort to break her down. Her mother dead and her father frightening to her, she acquiesced to Ken’s suggestions gradually, over months, in equal parts to get her freedom from a terrible homelife and. I'm actually pretty happy but there's this one guy at the gym who keeps stealing glances at me. I can't figure out if he likes me or if he's scared of me, but the gym is often empty when we're both there so I decided to find out. While working out I caught him looking at me from across the room and I decided to ask him to help me as a spotter. I was doing leg lifts and it's something that doesn't need a spotter, but he came over and I asked him to sit behind me and I'd show him how he could. Vicki was clearly under the same spell and they each found themselves yielding to its power without even token resistance."Okay, now I've not actually eaten my lunch, and neither has Haley. Haley, darling, I think that it's time to grab some food. I trust that you ladies don't mind waiting for me to get some food in my system. I still need a little time and energy to recover from my last 'performance', if you catch my drift. I bet that you're starving by now, aren't you, Haley?" Dan led his.