I hate when he touches me. I hate opening my eyes in the morning and knowing he’s going to be there.’ ‘Let me help you,’ Trent told her. ‘I ...can help you get away from him. I can make sure you get away and you’re safe.’ ‘No you can’t,’ Laci told him, sounding pitiful. ‘You don’t know how violent and relentless he is. He’d find me no matter where I went, and if he knew you’d helped me, he’d be vicious enough to kill both of us. Besides, I’m entitled to his money, and I’m going to make sure I get. But you are growing harder, and I'd say that at least qualifies for indecent exposure!" Joy quipped.They had been together long enough that such banter back and forth amongst themselves had become the norm. They had hot-tubbed together naked on several occasions, so being in various aroused states around one another came as no surprise. They had even gotten fairly soused one evening, and ended up making love in front of one another, which they had all found very erotic and very arousing. But. He spit some out, but it reaccumulated even faster. Shawn felt a vague, expanding warmth on his forehead, which released in trickles that stung his eyes. With his trace of remaining consciousness, Shawn attempted a personal inventory of his injuries. He hadn’t gotten far, though, when he heard a heavy footstep. He squinted up the stairs. It had been dark in the hallway, but it was a little lighter than where he was now. There was just enough light in the hall for him to make out a silhouette. "Feminine wash?" It's the only soap I have. Go wash in the lake." He turned to Drake,tickling him under the chin. "Good baby. Puke on the bad man." Ba!"Volleyball was two-on-two because Drake wouldn't go down for a nap andNguyen went home to change clothes. Kinny watched the game. He enjoyedthe view. At the end of it, he decided that Jazz played simply for thethrill of losing her top four times in one game.On the way home, the baby babbled. Every time he saw a bird, he said,"Ba!" Even dogs were.