With new money coming into town, the Council agreed this expenditure was worth it for the long term. More people suddenly had jobs.Leslie was amused t...hat more people in work also made the Council more money for other projects. She had never seen her Council so animated in improving things for the people. She was starting to wonder if they needed the other projects, but Aaden had informed her of the difference it had made in Trenton especially for operating businesses and for education.He had. She heard a snap and felt cold steel encircling her left wrist. Big Al grabbed the short chain between the handcuffs and brought Debbie's left arm in a wide arc down to her waist and then reached up with his free hand and did the same with her right arm. When both hands were together behind her back he snapped the remaining cuff on her right wrist. Accomplishing this he remained pressed against her body and continued to enjoy the feeling of power over another human being. Big Al always enjoyed. ‘I don’t love you or anything like that.’ No, no, no, that’s not right, try again. ‘I love you, but not like that…’ Hopeless! ‘Nikki,’ he said in a very commanding voice snapping me out of my witless rantings. ‘What do you want?’ I looked at him like a vamp yet felt like a silly girl. ‘I want you to take my virginity. I want a real man who I respect and admire, it just has to be you Theo,’ I finally said in a very confidant and assured voice. ‘What about your parents?’ ‘I’m not about to. We had to do something!”“Yeah,” I said. “But it didn’t have to involve their deaths.”“Yes, it did,” Liz said.“No,” I said. “You could have gone to Interpol or the FBI and taken your lumps for being dumb enough to get involved in the first place. What you did was so you could walk away unscathed. You can hide behind it with anybody else but don’t you dare try that shit with me!”Liz closed her eyes for a moment. I don’t know if it was to calm her temper or to regain her composure.“OK,” she said.