But it was pretty obvious you weren’t going to let this go. And desperation like that … well, it can lead to some poor choices. And poor choices i...n this life can be very dangerous, especially for a beautiful young man like you. There are lots of unscrupulous men out there who would not put your interests first.”“Is that what you’re doing here?” Tobin asked, feeling sullen for reasons he could not quite discern.“I’m looking out for both of us,” Jimmy said simply. “It’s easier for you than it was. I remembered how startled I was the first time I saw the Indian shadowing him. “Well, Jason stepped in between them just as I showed up and almost got killed when he realized I was there. Private Randolph was coming at John with a knife. I barely knocked it aside in time to keep from being skewered.”“Well, that doesn’t sound like bad news. Thank god you knocked it aside.”“Yeah. The private is cooling his heels for thirty days in the brig at Fort Number 3. But in the meantime, the troop was sent. I knew you were a nice guy, but it wasn’t until then that I knew you would give me the sex I had been missing. I thought to myself right there that I needed your baby. I stopped taking my pills, and warned you. I haven’t had a period since and my breasts are tender.’ ‘Are you trying to tell me I might be a father?’ Sheila and Julie hummed and said, ‘She is, she is.’ They added, ‘We have to find a place to settle down for a few months.’ I was speechless and even a little teary. Tough guy, yeah.. And although theactual ropes were lying in a coil on the floor, like asleeping snake, she could still feel them around her body.Glancing at her arms she saw the marks like livid redbangles, deeply embedded.‘The physical marks and feeling stay with you longafterwards,’ said Elliott.How did he know?‘Really?’She was smiling vaguely, her body rapidly melting. Asher legs gave out on her again, Elliott scooped her into hisarms and carried her across the landing into a dimly litbedroom. He laid her.