Benefits that you provide them. Even before this recent spurt of maturation, the influence that you two and those other girls have had on them is noth...ng short of miraculous. I was dreading having one of ‘those’ teenagers, as was Inez. But we’ve gotten nearly model teenagers, particularly in the last six months or so.“No, there’s no one else that Inez or I would have care for our daughters other than you ... you and Sandy and, now, Carol, though I don’t think that we should put her name on the. I was glad for that at least. When speaking to me privately, she never used words like, ‘please’ or ‘I would you like to…’. She addressed her needs as simply ‘Jon, you should or must do this or that.’ Now I didn’t mind doing most of what she requested but I increasingly hated not being asked and just being told what to do. I would have done it anyway, like helping around the house or checking our (her) car’s tires for air pressure. But to be told I ‘should’ do this rather than suggesting I do. The pimpliest faced kid would figure that her attention was because he was irresistible."You go around seducing men?" William asked. He looked over at Lucy and asked, "How does one make a living doing that? Besides the obvious way, of course."Lucy looked down at the table and giggled. Looking up, she noticed Natalie hitting Rock to get his attention. Nicole was doing the same thing with Colt. Ling was looking over at William and shaking her head. Marissa was staring at William with an open. When the dust settled, the returning scout had spotted a blood trail. The platoon had been inserted to follow the trail.For two hours they had cautiously followed the streaks of blood. Someone, probably more than one someone from the marks in the dusty soil of the trail, had been seriously hurt. They had found nothing else though. There had been no bodies, no weapons, no supplies.Taylor held his hand up in an alert signal. The entire platoon froze. Then "Get down" came from the point man and a.