Mike didn’t even spare a glance at the clerk, despite the likely danger of offending a man from Chaos.Even though she was loaded down with all of th...ir field gear and extra weapons, JJ lead the way through the bank. She reached one of the rooms, and held the door open for Mike so that he could carry his burden into the room. He went inside, and she quickly followed while closing the door behind herself.Mike gently put Donna down on the floor. He stuck a finger in the hole to call his storage. ‘So what’s with the big bag, are you moving house or something?’ ‘Got it in one,’ blondie said gulping at the coke, ‘couldn’t pay the rent so out we went.’ ‘Sorry to hear that,’ I said genuinely, I really did feel sorry for them, must be hard at that age with no money. ‘Where are you moving to?’ ‘You did say you got the house,’ Zoe said almost matter-of-factly, finishing off her fries. ‘Oh no you don’t,’ I said firmly as the penny dropped. ‘I don’t need a couple of kids.’ ‘We’re not kids,’. Here, let me show you.’ She got up and walked to him. She barely came to his chin. He stayed at the doorjamb when she passed, so that she brushed him to get by. There was a subtle hint of cologne— or was it an essential oil? Sandalwood? As she brushed him, she looked up and their eyes met. A tingle rippled through her. ‘Uh-oh,’ she thought and hoped her expression didn’t betray her inner tingle. She led him through the halls of Azura Holdings. When she pointed down a corridor, toward Albert’s. He ill treated his new wife nearly from the very start and she began to rue the weakness that had lead her to remarry this brute of a new husband. He posed no fit step-father for little Jack either, and nearly immediately forced Jack into early labor at the mines, far younger than that of most of the lads there, while he and his sons (who were a bit older and far stronger) remained idlers at home. The once prosperous farm soon become mostly fallow, except what parts young Jack and his.