Bill looked up at that moment, caught his wife's gaze, and smiled bravely, as though telling her silently across that crowded room, that everything wa... going to be all right, and that after this one last trial, they would be free forever from the Farrington's perverted curse. Laura smiled back at him in answer, and then saw Abby looking at her with such an undisguised look of anger and hatred, that it made her laugh. Her laugh seemed to serve as a cleansing for her frightened soul, and as the. The overseer would say that Mr. Greene took the missing slaves west to Missouri, intending to sell them to his favorite nephew, although none of them knew exactly where the nephew lived. He wanted to sell them because they were all related and he wanted to bring in new blood for breeding. Mr. Greene and his son had taken half of their money intending to take a steamboat to Natchez to buy more slaves on their way home so he could expand his plantation, something he’d talked about doing for more. We just rolled our eyes and snickered quietly. We grabbed a couple of beers and sat down on the couch and cracked open the bottles just in time to hear, “YES, YES, JUST LIKE THAT! MORE! MORE!” I couldn’t tell if it was Megs or Hannah doing the demanding.“You have got to be shitting me!” I told Kelly.Kelly smiled, and then she began bouncing on the couch. “OH, GOD, GRIM, DO IT TO ME AGAIN! DON’T STOP! I NEED IT!”I laughed at her, and Kelly just kept bouncing on the couch, moaning and wailing in. Are you really serious when you say you're not even in the least bitcurious? Most men would kill to know." I'm not 'most men.'" You're not wrong there." Very funny." Look, let's just try it, and if you hate it, we'll stop." Okay, fine, if it'll just get you off of my case."She clapped her hands together. "Yes! Thank you! You're going to lovethis, I promise you."It was 23:45 and we were both sat on our double-bed wearing ournightdresses (there's a sentence I never thought I'd say - had a lot.