I couldn't, could I?" No, but that's not how Kushnar would see it. You turn up with an attractive woman in tow. Of course he assumes that she is 'your...'. That's the way that their culture works, even informally."Gerry sat back in his seat feeling glum. What made things worse was that he'd found Suzie insufferable. When it came to women, he preferred the quietly compliant Fanima to the brash and noisy Ms. Berkham. And she had known it. Even if they got her back, she probably wouldn't ever. “Why not? You have beautiful boobs, might as well show them off, right?”“I guess, yeah.” I reached behind me and tugged the tie loose. “You sure you’re okay with this?”“Absolutely!” He admired my breasts as I pulled the top off, then whistled softly. “You should get those out more often!”“Very funny! It’s not appropriate in most places, you know.” When he didn’t respond, I said, “Did you enjoy those girls we walked past a little while ago?”“What girls?”I laughed. “Don’t try to play innocent, I. We added their stuff to the growing pile in the back of my pickup.Hearing us talking at dinner, Juwanna and Mabel both insisted that they come with us. “You be gonna need a whole lotta help cleaning a new house,” Juwanna warned.“You’re right, as usual,” I conceded. “There’s just so much going on right now that I’d forget my head if it wasn’t attached,” I sighed.“Don’ you worry none. If’n we find it lying around the house, we know where it belongs,” Juwanna teased me.Juwanna and Mabel were such. You can call those books your present from me."Billie nodded, smiling. "That's what I was thinking." She hugged the books and looked around nervously. When she glanced back at Hanson he was looking at her bare legs below the hem of the short dress she had on. At the same time Billie studied his smooth features and muscled shoulders. What was the danger Nora always nagged about? What was the real reason a white girl wasn't supposed to ride with a black boy? When Billie-Ann rode with Jed, her.