We should bring you to Japan to learn respect!” then he slapped me.“Get dressed and leave “ Mr. Sugimoto said. “Can I…at least clean up?”...I asked, halfway begging. He smiled “I want your husband to see you like this so he knows what the price was. I understood, I had given up any self-respect for money and power and lust. I felt demeaned but I also felt sexually powerful.I wore only my trenchcoat and was driven back to my home. My husband was awake and was shocked to see me, covered in. ’ ‘OK, daddy,’ she answered. When her father took that tone, it was pointless to argue. Janice and the twins rode with Otis to his home. They entered and the kids rushed to see their grandma and grandmere. Janice came in and greeted her mother and grandmother. They both knew something was wrong. Lizzie took one look at her face and said, ‘He knows, doesn’t he? Good, you don’t need to protect that bastard’, she hissed. Then she hugged her granddaughter. Donna followed her husband upstairs. It. He was my mom when I didn't have one, when I was just a little girl and Daddy was working hard to build his own garage out of nothing. And now Steve's wife, or soon-to-be wife, was doing the same things and the comparison, the strangeness of the situation, was exciting and frightening all at once."I want you to be my friend," I told Lisa as she was drying me off, answering the question she'd asked some ten minutes before. "You don't have to call me Miss Russet anymore, or do anything, okay?"She. Dad told us quite a lot but Jenny and I think he missed some out."Sharon nodded. She told him the whole story: her struggle to know how to fulfil her promise to Rachel and why she decided that Richard needed sex, her astonishment at his gentle yet dominating treatment of her, her falling in love with him and her realisation that he would never love her in the same way, her misery at discovering that he had fallen for Deborah and how she came to terms with it. James listened raptly and without.