He had participated in some of the carnage he saw in Frank's aura. Ben choked on his shame and self loathing."You chose to stop. You have paid for you... sins and have been forgiven," Joseph said in Ben's mind. "The guilt you feel isn't the result of a stain on your soul. Your guilt is being caused by your exposure to someone that is nearly a Red Agent himself. One of the weapons a Red Agent can use is causing you to doubt yourself. I have warned you against his temptation, lies, and deception.. I'll listen."Gina proved her years of practice when she revealed her past to him and continued her masterful massage. "Mother had three problems which caused me to grow in her uterus at too young an age. She developed early and beautifully. She wanted out of her life of trailer parks and her mother's johns and her mother's meanness and her mother's sloppiness and her mother's growing fatness and ugliness. And she had no patience."Barely fifteen, the first man who approached her with cocky. And if Mike had done that to a girl at your store, they would lock him up and throw away the key,” Jess said in disgust. Emma was stunned speechless.Jess closed her eyes and shook her head slowly. After a long sigh, Jess said, “I thought I had taught you the difference between consensual and non-consensual, but it seems I didn’t. And I guess that is somewhat on me. I am very disappointed. In both of us.”Emma swallowed hard. “Jess, I, I didn’t think that ... of that, I mean ... I...”“As someone. I still don’t think I do, but what the heck do I know? I can’t even here my own voice now, as I sing Hank’s song.Anyway, when I finished this song, the people in the dining room just stood and looked at me with their eyes wide and their jaws dropped open like I had my britches down. Then, they started to clap ... and they clapped and clapped, until I started playing another of Hank Williams’ famous songs – a slow one this time, since they seemed to like that fast one so much.“Take These Chains.