“No, no, tell me.” Frank looked at her. His eyes pierced through hers like he was trying to look deep inside her. “You can’t fool me,” he w...hispered, “I see that something is eating you up. Something is gnawing at your soul and it has been for a long time.” Mary was shocked. Was it that obvious? Was it so obvious that a stranger who she met maybe forty-five minutes ago could see it? Memories flashed through her brain and within one second she felt all the emotions flying through her body that. One day, I picked up a copy of Machiavelli’s The Prince. I nearly dropped the book when I read, ‘The injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.’ That was the missing piece. It was that line in an old book about power that freed me from fear.”“Amazing.”“People laugh when I say that I can take care of myself. They don’t understand how I operate.”“I can see how you used that against Ann’s stalker.”“That’s right,” Peter said.“That’s. "Can you come back to my house now for a little while?" asked Duncan whose penis was wanting to be out of his trousers."Yes, I will just text Harry and tell him I am working late," replied Carol whose urgent need for sex outweighed her conscience.She sent the text to say that she would be about two hours late and then followed Duncan out of the office and, in her car, followed him to his home. Although she knew where he lived this was her first visit to his house but it might be the first of. She then stepped back, and took her place with the rest of the women."Dearly beloved," he began again. He finished with "In the name of our savior, Jesus Christ, Amen. You may kiss the bride."Following the kiss, Peggy Sue nudged Waite and pointed to the Reverend Moore. Waite extended his hand, and left two half eagles with the reverend. The man smiled and blessed the party.They left the church and went down the street to Scott's Tavern. They went inside and the proprietor, Mr. James Scott.