I couldn’t afford to talk to that cop again. The guys I was running from were also waiting on the other side of Eight Mile. Their message was clear... ‘You’ll come back soon bitch and when you do… ‘ A lot of cars passed me on my way to Kroger. The weather suddenly had a new chill, and I saw the first of what would probably be many snowflakes beginning to fall. A little while later, I was in the parking lot outside of the large store. I immediately started looking in the shopping carts outside. She suddenly felt quite strange, smiling at her new boss she felt somehow at ease and safe. He noticed that the d**g had taken effect. Come he asked her to take dictation, telling her that he would have to check for mistakes and that they would not be tolerated under any circumstances. She sat up, crossing her legs and concentrated on his words, it seemed a little of a blur what she was writing and she felt warm and nervous at getting it wrong. He deliberately spoke fast to unnerve her watching. I couldn't get the picture of the posts Mary had gotten in her mouth as the first part of her dental implant procedure out of my mind."So, did you have any problem with your fangs?" Fangs?" You know. The posts they put in your mouth." Oh, those. You don't know, do you?" Don't know what?"She lifted her lips apart in a grotesque smile. Where she'd had titanium posts replacing the missing front teeth, she now had teeth."I thought it was going to take at least six weeks before they could attach the. It took me a couple minutes before I recognized the back of his head. He was standing next to a small group of people, more and more coming over as whoever he was talking to got more boisterous. I only hesitated for a second before I walked up to the group, realizing with a sinking feeling that he was talking to Mary. She literally had to have stumbled out of the room and bumped into him. Their faces were laughing and relaxed, but as I came to stand beside Mary, Jason’s face tensed up and his.