Andrew didn’t want to lie to this man as lies had a bad habit of coming back and biting you in the ass. “Shortly before I departed home, we had an...intruder on our farm sir. He tried to kill me but my mother put a few arrows in him.” Andrew moved to a rock by the roadside and sat. “He was after something that had been left by the family that owned the farm before they were killed by bandits many years ago.”“Did he find what he was sent for?” the Troop leader asked.“Yes sir, but he made the. I locked my bedroom door and cleared a place on my desk for her stuff. I though that I had forgotten a shot glass but Dad had put one in the lime bowl.Tina opened the bottle and poured herself a shot right to the brim. I smiled to myself as I realized what Dad had done. He had several shot glasses that all looked alike on the outside but had thick to thin walls that held anywhere from three-quarters of an ounce to one ounce to one and a half ounces. Dad had given Tina the double shot glass.Tina. Know this -if you disobey me again, the whip will be used. Do you understand?" Yes, Seremides, I do."He nodded and reached to untie my bindings from the tethering post. Mywrists were still lashed together, but were now free from the metalring. I was not to be whipped after all. Because despite evidence to thecontrary, I was still a Free Woman. Seremides took hold of the free endof the tether and led me by my wrists to the corner of the adobebuilding where he forced me down onto my knees. The. "It's okay... " she told him, rubbing his back. "Are you drunk?" she asked. She didn't think he was.He shook his head slowly, still not looking at her. He got up then, pulling his pants on in the dark."Where are you going?" she asked. "Are you leaving?" I gotta go," he mumbled."Ryan! Don't leave!"He ignored her, sitting on the bed as he quickly tied his shoes. She touched his arm, but he shook her off."Ryan! Talk to me!" she begged, in tears.He left quietly. She lay back in the bed, crying. Why.