" And she cried out as if she was in pain when Helen stabbed her in the OR," said Hammond. "By the way," he added, turning to Cutler, "that was an esp...cially nasty piece of work." And you were just showing affection when you tried to open up her side?" Cutler said frostily.The discussion went on for another half hour, and the meeting ended with agreement that the "Foundling" would be subjected to a series of tests to determine her vulnerabilities, if any, and her pain threshold.Cutler was. It was a beauty salon. I took a breath as I walked Katee in to the small shop where two women were working. I walked with her up to one of the stylists. She was looking Katee up and down, and looking at me in judgement. Before she could even say it, I said“She’s not my daughter, she’s my girlfriend.” I smiled She and her coworker paused a minute, before starting to laugh. They were sassy, they cracked jokes in good fun, automatically assuming she was my ‘sugar baby’, and congratulating her on. I was about to put my phone away when it pinged with a text. It was from Lana: “Can we talk?”I worked the keypad furiously. “No. You nearly got me killed and nearly got three girls raped because they were with me. I’ve given a lot of forgiveness to get to the point we were at this morning. Until I feel like I can forgive more, you should really leave me alone.”I sent it and went to meet Tricia at her last class of the morning. I walked her to the cafeteria and told her that I wouldn’t be around. I was taken out by a kindly fisherman, so I could see the lake properly. He knew what all these different birds were but unfortunately didn’t speak much English so all the names were in German I guess. He was quite an old guy, and I never thought he looked at me more than as a whacky English girl, whereas I would have been more concerned with a younger man. When I wasn’t walking and making a nuisance of myself on boats I was waltzing around the shops in the nearby village and that’s where my.