“Too many conflicting feelings and thoughts,” I replied.“Brought everything back to the boil?” asked Colette.“Hardly the boil,” I laughed,...“but all the old questions and some new ones are back and I don’t like that. I really thought it was all over; now it’s back.”“She’s got a lot to think about, that’s true,” said Harriet. “Can you imagine what’s going through her mind now. How guilty she must feel? She got everything wrong; wrong about your guilt, wrong about sleeping with that other guy,. ” And again, I moaned loudly as her panties were totally soaked. The matinee ended and I was glad to see the theatre was basically empty and as we left, Kendra grabbed my hand and pulled me into the family bathroom and locked the door. “We have a little while before lunch, if today is my day, fuck me right now," she said. I’ve always enjoyed Kendra’s sexual nature, but this one caught me off guard as it was more public and more forward than normal. I was stood behind her and nibbled on the base. We share no blood. I’m so grateful for that, now. Of all his many faults, gambling is the one that brought everything out into the open and saved me. It’s also the reason I’m a whore.That Friday I came home to find Dad drunk and agitated. Nothing out of the ordinary, really. He ordered me to get dolled up, which was both weird and extra-ordinary. I went along out of habit, though. Being agreeable usually kept me clear of his wrath, especially if he was drunk and already agitated.He had my dress. Roy’s testimony differed in that he was ambushed after the father-son argument at the house. He was tied to the fence and whipped into unconsciousness. The judge accepted the defense lawyer’s contention that Kate could not possibly have seen what she claimed to have witnessed, being at least two hundred and fifty yards away in a snow-storm. She denied there was any snow falling at the time but the defense produced evidence of forecast that day of intermittent localized snow falls. Eventually.