.." she said, nodding."I'm coming to you as a woman, hoping to appeal to another woman's senses," Maria went on. "It's simple. I could be a bitch, and...give these pictures to the principal--" she held up her Nikon camera and then stuffed it back in her purse--" and your teaching career, along with Dan's, would be in ruins. I saw you with him last night. What's in this camera leaves little doubt about what was going on in my husband's car." Maria nodded toward the parking lot where she had seen. “So that’s how I ended up back at Mike’s Bikes, and the rest as they say, is history,” I smiled.She stood, leaning against the counter on the island, looking at me intently before she spoke.“This history hasn’t been written yet,” she said solemnly. “You haven’t told me everything, but you’ve told me enough. You’re not all the way there yet, but you’re getting closer.”I shook my head, wondering what she meant.She saw the question on my face.“You still couldn’t bring yourself to come to me and. There were blank spots in his memory where he was told by family members he’d reacted very negatively to attending church – like collapse-on-the-ground-screaming-in-terror negatively. Went on for a year. He remembered none of it. Those blank spots worried him, and he had the bright idea of trying to force his way past those mental blocks with the aid of illegal pharmaceuticals.”“What happened?”“I counseled against it. In the end, he agreed his mind was protecting him from something, and he. But mostly I was scared because if I know that if Brad finds out about this he'll kill Mr. Riggs.David sighed and said, "There's no way to hide those marks, Jan. Brad is going to find out. And what's to stop Riggs from doing this again, if not to you then to someone else?"I leaned back against the back of the couch and said, "Oh god! I don't know! I can't think. I'm tired and I hurt and I'm drugged. Great drugs, by the way! I'd like to get some more of these!"I smiled at Midge and saw that she.