The following day, when Andrea arrived for work, she saw blood stains surrounding Jane's blowhole. She immediately ran back to Jill's office yelling, ..."Jill! Jill! Come quick! Something's wrong with Jane! I think she really got hurt yesterday!"Jill jumped out of her chair spilling veterinary records all over her desk. She grabbed a whale kit and ran with Andrea out to the whale tanks.Exiting out to the tanks, Jane was swimming blissfully around the edge of the tank. Andrea reached out and patted. It was covered in soft hair, and even in sleep, it was taught and muscular. Slowly, I slid my hand up, along his arm, toward his hand. I stroked it softly, hoping he would loosen his grip and allow my escape. What the …? There it was, on the third finger of his left hand. Why had it never occurred to me that he might be married? In slow, measured degrees, my anger rose. The asshole! He cheats on his wife by raping other women? What kind of slime-bucket would …? Before I realized what I was. She resigned herself to removing the charm for him, and she'd just have to pick up the pieces."Madeleine, just lay off, please. Just trust me, this will be very hard on Penn, and on you too. Don't be unkind, he deserves better."Madeleine withdrew, but Dee could see that she was angry, and perhaps a little scared. Why on earth did Jane matter? Madeleine had been Penn's first, and only, girlfriend. It was sad that this girl Jane had been taken, but hadn't they all lost friends?Dee embraced Penn,. ‘It’s just that recently, I’ve been thinking about him lately and…’ He trailed of. ‘Look, if you don’t want to talk about it, I understand. I am truly sorry.’ ‘No, no. I can talk about it, I can, just for some reason, everything around me lately has been reminding me of him.’ ‘Well, without sounding like a bigger asshole or choking on my foot, can I ask what happened?’ Dylan took a deep breath and told her the story of that fateful day when his fathers race car burst into flames. ‘So, my mom.
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