I was still curious about that special room and I asked Malcolm what the elastomers and silicone were used for. He just laughed and said, “A young, ...nnocent girl like you doesn’t need to know about that stuff.”That first day of work was hard and heavy, but I handled it well. One thing I had to get used to was the way the men stared at me when they thought I wasn’t looking. I was wearing tight jeans and a blue t-shirt with no bra, and I knew that my ass and breasts were attracting their. The evening continued to chug along nicely when someone suggested party games, one of the young guys then said he just wanted to get me under the mistletoe, so you fancy Dawn then do you , fancy a snog with her do you , well Im sure she will oblige my manageress said, go on she said give him a kiss for gods sake, I was literally dragged under the mistletoe and went to give young Brian a peck on the cheek, but he had other ideas, it is xmas time he said and Ive fancied you for ages, and I. Blasted in to a thousand little pices. Damn Higgings had loaded the shot gun with police load 00 shot. Damn that made the buckshot about half again as heavy as normal. The shots were meant to take a man to the happy hunting grounds and then some. Eli stayed in the hospital for a week. The doctors said that they couldn't fix her sex organs up for a normal man. I heard one doctor make a joke about horses. I was sick. I had saved her but at the same time she had condemned herself. When she got. It made Hayden feel almost protective of her, of both of them. It confused him, to say the least. He pushed it out of his mind for now and focused on practice. He kept one eye on Riley when he could and every time he looked over, the kid looked content. Hayden told himself he’d have plenty of time to sort out his feelings for Anna later. Starting with that night when he drove Riley home. He wasn’t going to leave her house until something was decided between them, for better or for worse. ***.