Suddenly I heard a loud snapping noise. Terror washed over me as I realized he had hit her with the riding crop. I turned around immediately and went ...owards the stairs. In my mind, he was beating her and I had to tell my mom about it. I stopped and started thinking about what to do. She didn't scream or seem scared; whatever they were doing was voluntary. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that Ryan wasn't an abusive guy. I had known him my entire life and he wasn't malicious in any. “I’d invite you to my house, but I just gave it up to the bastard,” she said. “Well, I’d invite you to my house,” I replied, “but I don’t think my wife would approve if we disappeared into the bedroom.” “I would behave,” Carla replied. “I don’t want to be the cause of any issues for you.” It was a cloudy day, a little on the chilly side and the autumn leaves blew across the parking lot. The windows on her SUV were foggy. “You know,” I replied. “Change can be a difficult thing, but with help,. Presumably she knew that her father had a 6.8 CAP and two concubines.At his pod door, Dennis appeared as if in his mid-twenties, though he was obviously older if his daughters were fourteen and sixteen. “How is Meredith?” Craig asked him.“Lindsay is comforting her. I think she added two and two to get five. She never did pay much attention in school. She likely believes I’ve filled my quota. I think she missed that I can take her as a supernumerary.”“Which I presume you’ve done?”“Not yet,”. I asked what his MOS was. He told me he had been assigned to the motor pool and had been there when a couple of Hummers that had been seriously shot up were returned and no one could remember who had signed for them. His motor pool sergeant had put the blame on Delta because he remembered some black helmeted operators commandeering a couple during the stand to. I had to chuckle, but didn't tell him it had been us. We sat and shot the shit for a few hours more then I told him I had to leave. We.