"Dad, is Kat in there with you? If she is, Myrna sent me up to tell both of you supper's almost ready. If you don't come down, she's gonna be mad at b...th of you." Sally Homes, quit fishing for information and tell Myrna we'll be down in a little bit. Can't a man have any privacy in his own house?" Not if he has a teenage daughter who loves him, he can't. I need to keep you two apart until you're married. That's what daughters are for, Dad, to look out for the man in their lives." Well, this man. It doesn’t need to look too good - they’re not interested in my hair.As quick as I can, I dash up the stairs. I get to the top, not even breathing heavily. The energy of youth sometimes seems endless, though some days I feel almost too tired to move. But I’ve learned that moving when I don’t feel like it is much better than the alternative, which is often a hard belting.My owner isn’t afraid of leaving marks. Any cuts, bruises or welts can be healed and erased by the local corrupt clerics.. I wrote half the cost off in my mind as worth paying to simply have a truck. Every guy ought to have a truck. It’s part of being a guy. For some reason banks will lend you the full price of a vehicle no matter how stressed out your credit is. Maybe it’s because they figure a guy will do anything to save his truck from repossession. I wasn’t originally a truck kind of guy, but I knew I’d do whatever it took to save mine. Barbara said that when she took the truck to a building supply place it was. Politicians, high-priced lawyers, who knew who else. He had networked effectively. It pissed me off. I leaned back in the small room in the bowels of the Sacramento Police Department's headquarters. “There has to be something,” I snarled at Sunny. Some angle we haven't checked.“What about his wedding to Pam,” said Sunny. “He was supposed to have spiritually married Melody at the same time.”“You want to get him on bigamy? He's not using this relationship with Melody in his tax filings or.