The next afternoon following school she and I went shopping at the local drog store and she picked up some stuff I'd never seen nor heard of before. W...hen we got home, she put me in her tub in the master bedroom suite bathroom, and proceeded to show me how to groom myself. She used a very narrow electric razor to trim my bush back to a light stubble, and a hair removal crème on my legs and backside. Wow, I had never felt this naked, naked, before. When she told me I had gone from cavewoman to. They just don’t have the same labels.“Mrs. Donaldson might say there is a certain kismet in my getting spending money out of purses. And it’s not that my parents don’t provide spending money. But dad would understand, he’s a businessman, why should I ask him for money. I can show him that I know how to use the education he paid for. The education that I am receiving here, to figure out how to make my own money.“Our enterprise is sort of an extra credit, extra-curricular business project, a form. The look in his eyes frightened me, as if he was going to yell at me some more. I was used to being yelled at by him, being as we fought all the time, but this is the first time it had ever been out of real anger, and that frightened me. “Get your filthy hands off me you whore.” His words hit me like a fist. It felt as if I had been beaten, his words were so harsh. I had never heard such words come out of his mouth and sadly, it kind of made me hot all over again. Thoughts were racing through. “An interesting strategy.”“One which protects my interests and which ensures you’ll consider your course of action very carefully.”“Because of my promise to you.”“Obviously.”“You’re a smart girl, Natalya Vasilyevna.”“I’m a Russian girl who is playing for keeps!”And she was calculating, correctly, that she couldn’t be sure which decision I might make if push came to shove, and she was right. I’d dodged a bullet, for the moment, though I suspected Angie was going to continue the full-court press.