"I heard him grunt, then a wet crunch, but couldn't see what hadhappened. Thinking I was in good hands and hearing the cavalry wail ofemergency sirens...I thought a little sleep would be a good idea.Part Ten.Splashes of memories came in; I think one was an ambulance where I hadplastic over my mouth. A searing pain burned deep into my left thigh,above it my flesh felt stretched and bloated, thudding and howling withhurt. Below I felt nothing."Where's my leg?" I murmured, they must have cut it. The cool air fanned his fevered face and blew delightfully through his thin pajamas. The bright gleaming stars seemed to be winking shyly at him, as though enjoying a secret he did not possess. He brooded for a moment and turned away. ***** It seemed to Jocelyn that she had scarcely closed her eyes when she sensed in her room a presence other than she own. Some indefinable instinct - perhaps sixth sense - whispered that she was not alone. It was silly of course,. “Don’t do that” she all but growled. “Don’t do what?” He gazed at her, a slightly mocking, challenging gleam in his eye. “Don’t push me away like that” she mumbled, embarrassed. “Really? How about if I do it like this then?” he grabbed her hips, spun her to the wall, pushed her up against it and bit her neck. She tried to grind back against him, wanting to feel him against every inch of her but he turned and walked away, leaving her alone with a hot, insistent tingling between her thighs. They. She thought he had just left. Now she wondered if he wasn't dead. At least that part was true.Her father could tell something was bothering Barbara but he didn't know what. That she wasn't telling him the entire truth he understood. He just hoped he knew his daughter well enough that she wasn't holding back something important. Yet what she had told him was bad enough. Hal was missing and he had to be presumed dead. Also the knife attack might mean that Ron was behind it not someone else..