“So you better call me or text me.”“Is tomorrow too soon?” he said.***Dale’s shoulders hurt like hell from trying to work his hands free of ...the duct tape. Now they were full of pins and needles, just like his feet. He’d been listening hard but hadn’t heard anything besides a toilet flush fifteen or twenty minutes ago. Kathryn was sitting directly across from him, her head bowed down to her chest, sleeping, her mass of wavy blond hair hiding her face.Alison walked into the kitchen followed by. Now I suppose, you will be getting off to work too.’ ‘Yes I have a few things to do, but I’ll be back this afternoon, will I see you here then?’ ‘Only if you are a bit later than usual, I won’t be back until about seven thirty.’ ‘Ok I’ll see you then.’ As things turned out although Harry only had a couple of jobs planned, the phone started ringing almost as soon as he had left Maria’s, he was flat out all day and by mid afternoon had decided to give the old house a miss for the day. He. Erm… operation, shall we say. Anyway, what am I doing on Hamster? You can well ask! Well I thought I would tell you a bit about last week`s little escapade, it`s my mistress you see; she`s the upright one with the big tits and the soft hands, face like a smacked arse, you remember, got pissed at the mayors party… Well she has been jogging in the park with me, every bloody morning for weeks now, every mornings the same, it`s “come on Monty keep me company,” like I had a choice with a bleeding. All he cares about is his rent. The farm is finished. They burnt everything. The house, the barn, the cowshed. It’s all gone, everything. What are we to do?”“Have you eaten? Any of you?”“No, Sir, what little we had, we gave to the children. What the bandits didn’t destroy they stole. What they couldn’t steal they destroyed. Why did they do this, Sir? We are simple peasants trying to make a living. We are not rich, and our farm was not worth much. Why did they have to destroy it?”“I do not know..