I didn’t know it at the time. I thought she was one of those well-meaning but totally fuckin’… excuse me… I mean, completely useless people wh...o want to help you but really want to just feel good about themselves. She walked up to me, invaded my personal space, looked up at me with those sweet brown eyes, and asked me to pick her up with one hand. She clutched her fingers together like little kids do and held them over her head. I am so big and she was so small, I felt like I was looking at a. "Yeah, sure," Kelly replied. But as she grabbed the new mattressprotector and pulled it tight, she realized that this one was a lotdifferent than the one on her bed. This one felt more... like plainplastic. The one on her bed felt just like a regular mattress pad - notplastic at all. "Hey, what's up with this thing?" she asked. "This oneisn't like mine." I'm afraid it was all I could find today. You'll just have to make dowith it honey."Kelly now knew for sure that she would soon be. She knew that Howard was in for one of the worst days of his life."Don't do it," a voice behind her said, "Don't have any feelings for that guy. You never come out on top playing that game."Becca snorted and turned to face Marie, "What about you? You're under his thumb as much as I am." No way honey. I just like sex and I love living the good life. With Carl I get plenty of both. I know that one day I'm going to be history. When that day comes, I'll just take what he gives me and move on. Until. ”I jumped in the Cherokee, Mutt took the front passenger’s seat, his perch and we waited.I had to give it to them, they were quicker than any woman in my experience, they ran out in under two minutes. Cassie, I now knew her name was Cassie, had her purse with some clothes stuffed in it, Kari had hers in her hands, shorts a top and tennis shoes. They climbed in the back seat and I headed back the way I’d come, I’d seen a little roadside motel back around twenty miles, I figured we’d get a room.