I’m determined to remove doubt. Using the dips and bumps of the road, I carefully shift the ball of my foot and heel incrementally closer. Millimetr...e by millimetre our press increases until I stop before it becomes conspicuous. I wait. Most of the other reading lights have been turned off now except for a few closer to the front. I sneak a peak and people around us have fallen asleep. Glimpsing my watch, it’s half midnight. I close my book, turn off my light and get my phone out. My lap is. He also noticed she would not look at him. He got up and crossed over to the couch and after sitting down on it beside her he tilted her head up to meet his gaze. As she looked into his eyes Brandon saw in them the pain she had been fighting back. ‘Its okay don’t fight it Ashley,’ he said in a soothing voice, ‘It’s alright to be sad you have faced a hard life, I can only imagine. You don’t have to be afraid, I won’t hurt you.’ As he slowly pulled her close and embraced her he felt her head rest. Damn it! Howcould I have let his happen? If only Janice were here, she'd know whatto do...But wait a second! Janice would know what to do! She was a lawyer,after all. She'd be able to get me out of this...... I hoped."Now!" Rachael continued briskly, "Let's go over these otherattachments okay?" Okay..." Very good. Now, this form absolves me of any legal liability in caseof sexual harassment. It says that you understand that your job issexual in nature, that you enter into this position freely. ‘No, make that for all the trucks in the last six months. If any of the trucks were done by the same person as mine, put out a recall on them, have them take theirs to the nearest shop and have them checked. And get ready to print up one if not more pink slips, I don’t pay the wages I do for shoddy and life threatening work.’ ‘Dev, what happened?’ Noreen had been with him a long time, she had earned the right to call him by his first name. ‘Let’s just say it’s a good thing I haven’t lost my.
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