Kasey was wary at first, but she quickly warmed to him. Now it was as if they had been together the whole time. Even his song writing had returned. Hi...s life had focus once again.Barrier Riff returned to the studio and even Keys was enthused by the new songs Don was writing. With the new songs, Don was moving the group in a different direction from their last CD. The sound was much closer to their first CD.Don watched through the glass as they played. Kasey, Jenny and Robin Matthews were bopping. There was little sense in denying it, though he wasn’t sure how he’d deal with it yet.________________________Phil swallowed, plastered on his best phony smile and opened the door.“Hi, I’m home.”“It’s about time,” Jane called from the kitchen. “Dinner will be ready soon. I was worried you might not show up on time.”He glanced in Jane’s direction, but couldn’t help noticing Toni sitting on the living room couch, studying him.“Yeah, I met someone. It took longer than I expected.”“How was. She'd gotten drenched waiting for Shane to find the right key and unlock the car. The drive home was short, and she had nearly begun crying on the way there. Shane had kept telling her to relax, that it would be okay, but Amy knew her dad. He was probably drinking. He would definitely be angry. And that combination, when it came to her father, usually meant someone got hurt.Of course, he hadn't seriously hurt her in years. He'd stopped slapping her around when she was in the fourth grade, when. I was seriously scared that he was going to forget to let me breathe, but I tried not to struggle. As his body relaxed a bit, he let me up. "Thank you, sir," I whispered hoarsely.Jake laughed and said "You're not of the hook yet."I sat up-right in my seat and pulled down the visor mirror. My face was beet-red, my hair was a wreck, my mascara had run with the tears that gagging had produced and my dark red lipstick had migrated from my lips to his dick. I fished a brush and a gloss from.