He stood in front of the little mirror in the bathroom and looked at himself. With careful fingers he prodded gingerly at his cut lip and yawning deci...ed he needed a shower. He hoped Sera wouldn't mind too much as he switched on the hot water and stepped into the narrow curtained cubicle. He didn't feel as he had in the shower on Thursday and his scrubbing was not the same. Thomas stood under the jet and soaked his hair through, washing the evidence of their actions from his skin. Standing at. . the mother who hated the very air I breathed. No... 1955 was no fun.This time around, Grandmother sold me the farm ... for what my mother sold it for after Daddy died ... the first time. 39.6 acres of rocky swamp, swaybacked house and joke for a barn cost me seven thousand dollars after it was all done.But, my side of the family? The men have a heart defect that couldn't be fixed. Besides the farm, Grandpa was the best barn builder in the state. He built six or seven hip roofed barns a year. That broke the siege as whoever was left slunk away pretty quickly. One of the first bodies I came across was the little shit that had tried for bounty on me. One of the next was the upper part of Garza, without the sneer. When I returned to the house the party was still continuing, but much quieter. Sadie had reassured everyone that the disturbance was over. I corralled the mine owners to a back room where they heard, from one of the conspirators we’d captured, what had been going on in the. ”He grabbed up the remote and lowered the volume on the set to background noise. He stood in front of her, his erection was obvious as a long bulge in his pants “Stand up.”She looked at the tent then up to his face “Why?”“Stand up” he insisted.Hesitatingly she pushed off the cushion until they were face to face. He dropped to his knees, reached under her skirt then pulled her panties off her hips and down her legs. She started to protest, she tried to back away but fell to her butt on the sofa.