When she finished talking to them, she asked if I would pick her up at eleven. I agreed to.When I returned from the school, Rena and Mom had both left.... Mom's car was gone and I assumed she had left for work, tired as she must have been. Rena, who had watched the kids all night, I'm sure was sleeping. I wasn't that wide awake myself. I brought the alarm clock from Sandy's room and set it so I could get her at the agreed time. I had an hour and a half that I could doze on the couch.I reached the. I seemed to remember vague images of having several different men use me, but I couldn't do anything about it." Heather stopped for several minutes as the horror of that time came rushing back to her. Greg had been sitting next to her and he now put his arm around his mother while she tried to get her emotions under control. Another few minutes and another belt of her liquor and she was ready to continue."First thing I did was to confront Ted. He told me that he came looking for me and one of. You could starve without eating. No collar, no food or drink. You can have anything in the kitchen if you work with me, but, if you don't, you'll go hungry and your sister will not get her medicine."The girl gathered all her courage long enough to again lift her face from Muffin and turn to Mary. "NO!" Look, kids, I didn't want to tell you this, but if you don't work with me, the men who brought you here will come in here and force you to put the collar's on. Believe me when I tell you that I'm. "Aren't you exaggerating a bit there? It probably was a poacher shooting at something in the distance."I showed him my shirt with the torn sleeve where the bullet had gone through. "One shot I could see, sheriff, but there were over five shots fired and we were under the yard lights. The SOB was shooting at one of us."The sheriff gave us a disbelieving look. "You have any reason to suspect that someone is out to harm either one of you?"I shook my head, "I'm a retired peace officer but I was in.