“Are you alright?”“No,” Ellie whispered as she pulled a chair out and slumped into it.“That was Rackmann. He said if I can’t pay him the r...ent by Monday then maybe if I sleep with him, he’ll overlook the rent money.”Ellie described to Jodie what had just happened on the front step. Jodie pushed a mug of hot tea towards Ellie.“What a fucking creep.”“Maybe, but where the fuck am I going to get 400 quid by Monday?”Jodie stood up. “Come on, we’ll think of something but we best get dressed and get to. It was clear that my only aspiration was a paycheck and enough work to keep me out of trouble. I got the job.The warehouse was dusty and stank of slow decay. I was set up with a computer, a scanner, and an assortment of shredders and bins for the stuff to be discarded. I’d grab a big cardboard box off the racks, carry it over to my station, and look up the case in the system. If the case was closed and anyone who was convicted had served their term, I would enter “evidence destroyed” on the. Then things started and she was asking me about my life and stuff and as usual went to girlfriend topic and said that i had no girlfriend in particular as i did not want any commitments and then asked about her and she said the she had a bf until she came to know he was two timing her and said then he said leave it and then she ask me about her my opinion and i said i must be the luckiest guys to get such a friend and praised her and she got happy and hugged me and kissed me on my cheeks and i. "Mrs. Wilkins was in tears before he finished. "They should have given you a medal," she said to him."They did," he replied nonchalantly, as if it happened to everyone every day.It wasn't more than fifteen seconds later when the Superintendent of the Schools walked into Mrs. Wilkins' office. He did not see that she had a visitor. "Mrs. Wilkins, the Army called about that Monson boy again. Do you know that they gave him a medal for something?" Yes, sir I did." You did?" Yes. Sir, This is the.