She left me to dry and change in the kitchen while she went to light a fire in the living room. I went to the door and told her I had a pile of wet cl...thes, and she came and put them in her drier, while I made myself comfortable on the sofa. We talked, at first just small stuff, but eventually I drew out her story. She was a widow, with two boys who had grown up and left home to start families of their own. She had come to this village to live a few years earlier, realizing capital from her. When I dropped her off at her parents' house, she asked for my phone number and said she would probably call me soon.I didn't think she would call me the very next day, a Saturday. It was very early. She asked if I had plans for the day, and told me that she would be moving out of her parents' to an apartment she had just rented. The day before she had already told me that she was temporarily staying with her parents after a very painful and complicated breakup. She also told me that my truck. Lay down for me," I told her.Marie obediently lay down on the bed and instinctively reached her arms up for me to hold her. I leaned down and kissed her passionately probing my tongue into her eager mouth. I cup one of her breasts in each of my hands and bent my head down to lick her already hardened nipples. She moaned softly as I did so. I began to nip gently at the flesh of her breasts. Finally, I clamped my mouth hard over her left nipple and sunk my teeth into her tender flesh. She gasped. ’ ‘Put in the hard work regardless of the result.’ ‘Always look presentable no matter how servile the task.’ At best, it was a life under the gun, under some overseer who would whip the Carolina boys into shape, because ultimately that’s what life did no matter how far he strayed from the straight and narrow. Claude figured that every man, woman, and child were under the same constraints—do the job, get paid, think smart, go back home, and tend to your family. This became his father’s equation,.