The food tasted good although it did pass through Sandra's mind that he could have doped the food in some way as a way of ending the situation either ...atally or as a way of dumping her somewhere out of the way. She even began to suspect that the wine maybe drugged as he seemed eager for her to drink as much as possible, but he sensed this was going through her mind so he took the glass and took a sip himself, before handing back the glass. He reassured her that he had not tampered with either. The lust-maddened idiot slapped her hard, flat across the cheek,jerking her head to the side so hard that she thought surely he hadbroken her neck. She struggled to twist away from his cruelty but thebald servant caught her by the hair and jerked her back to face him,delivering another brutal blow to her other cheek this time, bringinga stinging sensation to her skin as though she were being doused inraw gasoline. She was terrified more than ever now, afraid to struggleor offer any resistance. " We?re sorry for that Jack," Nadine said as she interrupted with a contemptuous smile, "but since you can?t use Lisa any more to hide behind, you should at least be honest with us. We all know it?s what you really want anyway.?"Huh?"I stared at her about as intelligently as the answer to her last comment had come out. I knew Nadine could be bitchy but this was beyond even her."Lisa told all of us about how you like to dress up and play ?Mommy? at home, Jackie dear."Speechless I stared at. It sent the family in to a deep tailspin. His father was drunk every evening, raving and ranting, thankfully not violent only vocal. He was a broken man. His mother was deeply sad. Deepu was lost. Not knowing what to do. That evening his Grandparents also left for their home, leaving this family to grieve on their own For a few days, Deepu was on his own, going to school, doing his home work. Winter vacations would start in a few days. His mom and dad now rarely spoke to each other. His dad had.