‘She is a serpent. She won’t be satisfied until she’s married to an elder and becomes a lady again. Don’t be taken in by the lip service she p...ys to the tribe’s ethics. All she wants is power and glory.’ Ivory smiled triumphantly as Glade recounted how the meeting turned against Demure. ‘Surely there was no one who would defend her,’ she said, as she clambered down a gravelly slope, anxious not to slip on the ice that persisted from an earlier snowfall. ‘The elders defended her,’ said Glade.. I also grabbed three extra magazines for it. If she needed those, we were being invaded.Once she was set up where she could watch the door without being in the direct line of fire from inside the pantry, I gave her a kiss. “Don’t shoot just because the door opens, it might be me. I’ll call King when I open the door,” I told her. I put a leash on King after looping the end around the leg of the heavy wooden table in the breakfast nook. The table had no chance of stopping King if he was. "I slid down in my seat and looked over a Joan who was laughing at my discomfort."Julie is married, and would never do something like that." Joan was still smiling as she said that.Our drinks arrived right then so I gulped mine down, trying to calm my shaken nerves. Joan smiled at me, with a kind of look, I really didn't get."Julie, let's get you another drink okay?" I nodded my consent and in a minute my second drink was in front of me. Norm turned to me and started asking me about Jon. I told. Justin thought he'd drown in all thepink he found himself surrounded by. Her worst fear wasrealized when she was six months along. A sonogram of herbelly had the doctor approach Jane. He checked the pad andthe monitor."I'm sorry Janet," He said sadly. "There was a mistake andit appears you're having a boy after all."Tears filled Janet's eyes as her body began to quiver andshake. When the doctor got close enough, she grabbed him bythe tie and her tears turn to a fire fury in her eyes. "Dr.Smith,.