”“I want to see the dresses when she tries them on. We don’t have a lot of time but I want my woman to be the prettiest and sexiest one there.�...“You do have the funds to purchase such a wardrobe – do you not?” she turned and looked over her glasses at me to ask.I pulled out the scrappy remnants of that last bundle of hundred dollar bills I’d opened, and laid the pile on the glass perfume counter. There had to be five or six thousand there.“Oh My! We’ll be right back, Sir.”She wasn’t lying. I said, "If you hear shooting, be ready to defend yourselves." I went light to be quick and quiet. All I took was what was on my combat harness, a radio, my knives, pistols and extra magazines. I dropped into an arroyo and walked up to the ranch. I wound up just about 20 yards from the house. I saw Renee; she was naked, tied between the poles for the clothesline. She was hanging by her wrists and looked like she had been whipped. I was not sure if she was unconscious or dead. I did know that I. Like, when I was lying on my back, they didn'teven stick up in the air any more, they just kind of rolled over onto thesides of my chest and kind of lay on my arms - almost like two soft waterballoons.As the summer wore on, Romey began spending more and more time over at myhouse and he even started staying for supper frequently and helping outwith some of the chores. Like, the minute you walked into our house ithad been apparent that two guys lived there (my Mother had run off with aformer. She'd built this ordinary life for herself in the suburbs and..." Sounds like a complete waste of her talents." You don't think being able to love is a praiseworthy ability?" I don't know what to think any more."Henderson grilled her for over an hour, anxious to know about Emily's state of mind prior to her betrayal."Emily helped destroy the Nexus," Henderson ranted, "probably even suggested it to them in the first place. She knew how critical it was to our defences. Janus and his cronies would.