" What happened?" He... He burnt me."Shawna laid a hand on her arm, feeling her trembling."Look, Marcus tried to get me to go to the police, and I wou...dn't. No-one would believe me. I had no proof, and it was too late."But it isn't too late because there are other people out there that he's going to do this to. And we can stop him." How, I've... he'll just..." Come with me." Where?" Tomorrow, come with me." Shawna stepped around her, fighting her own nervousness down. "Come talk to the police. I was going to pre-eat anyway, as paying for the date was starting to worry me. With the amount I've been eating for the last month I'd need to order two mains in a restaurant, and that'd be costly in an upmarket one. It'd be better to eat some of Mom's food first."By the way, Mark, have you noticed that tomorrow will be April Fools' Day?" I hadn't thought of that." I probably don't have to tell you this, but to be safe, your first date with a very nice girl, in a fancy restaurant, would be an. I don't usually read the papers; it's a lot of stuff that doesn't concern me but someone had left the morning edition in the diner where I usually have breakfast and the headline caught my eye 'RAGING RAPIST STRIKES AGAIN'. It went on to describe the vicious rape of a middle aged housewife who was in Mercy Hospitals' ICU, but was expected to recover.I called downtown to one of my old friends in the department and he said the case was still under investigation, but there were no clues so far.. I put back his newspaper and got up from the computer to make some toast for myself.It was nearly 8 am now and my husband got up to get ready for work as he was in the local office today instead of being out to customers premises, he worked for a company that made electronic machines and was one of the senior commissioning engineers meaning that he could be away for a couple of days at a time depending on the customer’s issues..I hugged him as he got to the door and he lifted me in his arms to.