"What are you doing?" Shhhh" Nate crooned, still smirking as his face came closer to mine, i tried to resist but his grip tightened around my chin.Nat... was so close to me i could feel his breath on my tightly pursed lips, i could see where this was going and i wasn't sure it was for me."Surely you have seen the way i look at you?"I managed to nod into his hand, i had seen the look and i had wondered...had i been sending out signals? What was i going to do?Suddenly Nate pushed forward and placed. ’ ‘OK.’ ‘I want you to phone up Joanie and apologise.’ She squeezed her arms holding him tighter. He placed her arms around her, kissing the top of her head. ‘Whatever is hurting you inside Suzanne can’t be cured by all that stuff. You need help to come to terms with whatever it is that’s eating you up.’ ‘Please don’t leave me.’ ‘I won’t sweetheart. Not if you stay clean.’ * He climbed into bed with her that night and she turned towards him, leaning up over his body, her mouth kissing his neck,. I really hoped that behind the chuckles and stares I wasgetting the same appreciation I tried to give the other victims. I knewI was lucky to be so supported at home; certainly not all of the boyswere.Monday used to be a Columbus Day holiday, but the local Indian tribesapparently made a legislative breakthrough in the state so now wedidn't get our usual 3-day October weekend. I sympathized with theircause although resented that we now got a new day off in January wherewe didn't really need one,. He elected to use the master bathroom, which was why he entered her bedroom. About three minutes later, when he hadn't joined her, she called out for him."In here," came his voice from her bedroom."You better not be lying on the bed naked," she warned, heading that way.She found him holding her rabbit, turning it in his fingers, examining it closely."Where did you get that?" she asked, her voice hard."It was lying on the bedspread. Is this what I think it is?" Shit," she said, softly. "I must.