He's a surly brute, and hasn't uttered a word."The man was tied to a post, and looked to be another former Imperial guardsman, with an ear ring and br...aided hair, like those three who had accompanied de La Zouche at Château d'Hougoumont."Where is de La Zouche staying in Valenciennes?" I asked. He replied with a curse, and spat in my face.I took up a pitch fork, and thrust it into his leg. He gave a shrill scream of pain and collapsed, held up only by the ropes about him. I repeated my. .. you’re a great guy, but I’m not ready for that. I don’t think you are either.”“Strictly platonic,” he said. “We could do that.”“Tommy, last resort, okay?”“Okay. Let me give this some thought. We have people who can help.”“You have people. I got shit,” I said. I felt my world swirling downward. But Tommy ... Nothing I’d seen from him gave me even a hint that he was going to try to force me into anything. Maybe his offer was the best I could do.Don’t get me wrong. Tommy’s attractive. I thought. After a couple of hours on the road, Ada came to an abrupt stop. A naked, unconscious man was lying in the road. He was bleeding from a scalp wound that looked to be fairly recent. Hank and Bill jumped down from the buckboard and rushed to see what they could do to help the unconscious man.As they bent over the man, a bullet kicked up the dirt between them. A young girl's voice shouted, "STAND UP, AN' STICK YER HANDS IN THE AIR!"A pre-teen girl holding a rifle came out from behind some rocks. The bed you fuck in. (In fact, I am wondering as I write this if you fucked her last night when you got home? If you did, had she showered?)“You better get dressed and compose yourself”, I told her. “Your daughter is liable to come looking for you when I leave.” “Yes,” she said. “Wait…wait a second.” She climbed off the bed and stood, her legs wobbly. She reached across the bed for the tennis dress and pulled it back on. I noticed she didn’t bother searching for the bra and panties. .