"Now get up, you and I are going to have a little 'conversation' outside."His eyes went wide and I knew that the man was basically a coward at heart, ...e shook his head and looked around as though for help. I felt hands gripping my arm, looking to the side I saw my wife, tears streaming from her eyes looking at me in horror, shame and guilt."Please Dan," she pleaded, "don't, for my sake, please."Wordlessly I shook her off and looked at the man, out of the corner of my eye I saw club bouncers. I was in the process of selling my business, after an offer had been made that was just too good to refuse. With the money we'd both be able to retire and do all that traveling we'd been planning for so long. With no c***dren of our own it was just the two of us and we intended to enjoy our 'later years' on-the-road. I felt bad that I was neglecting Alice those weeks and a night didn't go by that we didn't talk to each other on the phone and, to me at least, all seemed well. * * *. I'll be sleeping in the guest room."The next morning, Valerie startled me by opening the door to their bed room, and asking, "How soon do you two want to have breakfast?"I impulsively pulled up a blanket to cover my nakedness. "Not for another half hour Honey," Bill said, affectionately giving my bare behind a pat. "We're going to take a shower together first." When Valerie asked to be able to wash my clothes, I gave them to her, still covering myself with the blanket. I marveled at the irony. Her hair was brushed and down around her shoulders held back by the same red ribbon he’d put in Tina’s hair. The same red ribbon that had been found in Devon’s hair. ‘Pretty, isn’t she?’ he asked her, pushing Tina to her knees in front of the young girl. ‘I saw her walking the streets last night. I though maybe you’d like a toy of your own since, well, since that whore you were in bed with is dead.’ Tina’s head shot up, her eyes sending a blistering stare of hatred that she couldn’t control as.