”Debbie hesitated. Surely not, she thought, but Stephanie’s expression remained unchanged. Debbie pleadingly looked up at Stephanie and then at Am...er behind her, but both girls remained unmoved. I can’t, she said to herself, it will be so humiliating ... And so slave like shed realized. Her mind and emotions were in turmoil at what the two young women were commanding her to do.“Any longer and I’ll take that as being an act of insolence. You know what that means.” Stephanie said with building. He would still yell and berate me daily, but he didn't make any physical moves towards me.Until about a week later. He had been on the phone all morning arguing loudly with his wife and lawyers about the divorce.Towards the end of the day, I got a call for an emergency inventory transfer. I printed out the pack list and the order and headed back to the trucker's lounge. I was happy to get the break and get up from my desk and walk around.I stepped into the lounge and gave the paperwork to one. "What you got was not junk, just like what I am getting will not be junk. You can work that off or we can take it out in trade which ever you want. I'm not billing you, I'm just letting you know how much has been spent on the things that you wanted. Any questions?" No. The job the other night wasn't bad. In fact it was kind of fun in a scary sort of way. I wouldn't mind going on a few more but can we do both. Take some of this out in trade and let me repay some of it? I'll need the scratch to. Wyatt and two people he didn’t recognize sitting around her.This was the first of several trips to the Lewis County Courthouse Brock would be making over the next couple of months. Lynn had steadfastly refused to settle any lawsuit without an admission of culpability and none of the defendants seemed interested in stepping up to take responsibility for what happened more than two years before.The city and county had agreed to a settlement but only if it could wait until after the general.