A coed sleep over if you want to call it that. But that had been the most amazing night of my life. I had grown so much closer to my best friends, and...it made the departure all the harder. When I had left, they had cried, and it had hurt.I pulled myself out of my pity party when Peter mentioned he was going to get something to eat. I jumped up and joined him. Anything to get away from the truth.Together, we walked over to the food court. I looked up at him, my brother. The brother who had lost. By now there was a mixture of laughing and even some cheers from the crowd."Go on, Brad, give her a good spanking," somebody said. "She deserves it."Eddie's wife Alice was holding Kelly's ankles and laughing hard at the scene of Kelly's humiliation. The girls in the wedding party were shocked, but nobody tried to stop Brad. They all knew what a bitch Kelly was, and they secretly enjoyed seeing her humiliated like this.Finally, after one last hard slap, Brad stopped. "Maybe that will teach you. Sitting back in his chair, Fenwick closed his eyes and waited. His patience was rewarded when the sound of the heavy glass doors to the suite were carefully slid open. Fenwick realized that he was actually holding his breath as he saw the silhouette enter through the curtain and approach his bed. Even in the nearly non-existent light, he could see that the figure was reaching out with something. His curiosity satisfied, David Fenwick flicked a switch. The lights in the room flared into life —. ”“Jesus Christ,” Hailey said. “And the Mayor just hushed this up? Why in the hell would she do that?”“This was a month or two after the British tourists disappeared down there,” Phil reminded her. “The media has always been in the mayor’s pocket so they just nodded dumbly when she constantly referred to the area as Newtown. Newtown is on the other side of the river. They disappeared in Riverfront. Everyone knew it. You can’t get off the highway in Newtown from the direction they were going. It.