If there’s another irritating thing about her, it’s her stubborn nature. ‘Well, I just said—’ ‘Just buy me the fuckin’ thing, alright?�... I coldly told her as I stood up and snatched my coat. ‘Gerry, you barely touched your food,’ ‘I’m running late!’ I shot back before I ran out of the door. It was already half past 11 o’clock in the evening when I came home. I quietly locked the door behind me and tiptoed my way to the bedroom. Exhaustion seeped through every fiber of my being as I lumbered my. He held the bra and looked puzzled: was heuncertain how to put it on or did he not want to admit he knew? Helooked so helpless, so powerless; it made my heart race, and I willremember that moment for the rest of my life. I came up behind him,pulling it around his back, putting his arms through the straps, andadjusting them."Sophie... what's this all about?"I shushed him and kissed him gently on the lips. I picked up a dressthat was hanging over the wardrobe door and told him to put his arms. How she came to love you while she had you in her absolute power. You never whined or showed anything but respect for her. You showed her that even when her uncle declared you should be killed, you accepted it as fate. That was when you, the captured, became you the captor and Maria was in your hands and heart. Oh how she gloried in you when you kept your word just as you said you would."Merry explained what she felt now for me. "David, I broke your trust once. I can see that I didn't live up. “Names were changed, new languages learned, and money stolen from their larger family. They got into things that the elites found couldn’t be made any cheaper by using slave labor, children, or prisoners. Profits existed, just not the twenty-plus percent the elite families want.”“I’m confused,” Bambi said. “The people Chrissy’s mom worked for ran away from the elite families, like Ellen’s dad and uncle. They then got into the businesses that the elite families weren’t interested in running. Why.