Well, after a couple of quiet weeks Rick stopped over to see Juanita while James was on the road. Juanita was working on her English and offered him ...some lemonade. She was so happy he was giving her husband/his brother a job.Rick sat there quiet for a few minutes thinking and sipping lemonade. Juanita was sweeping the floor while clothes were in the washer spinning away. Spanish music was playing quietly on the radio.Rick said, “Juanita, why don’t you come over here? I think you have a. . you know they say blondes have more fun when they go black." Simone quickly blushed then nervously tittered along with everyone else at our risqué comments. Did I mention Simone is a ravishing blonde French woman?A moment later I was delighted to feel Simone's fingers warmly squeeze mine communicating a mutual affinity. Stopping to discharge our passengers Howard got out on the right side and leaned in to finish his comments with James while Mo helped Simone out of the left side. Simone. All of this happened relatively quickly. Flight tempo was at an all time high as we trained flyers, searched for new survivors and provided logistic flights to the new towns and bases. It is often during such times that slip-ups occur. At the time Jacob Hill was picked up on a routine single survivor rescue nothing seemed out of the ordinary. After the fact we found that Jacob was one screwed up individual - a psychopath with a history of violent behavior.Looking back on it after the fact I saw. Still smarting from the clumsiness of the man wielding the needle and the bruises he had left where he had gripped her shoulder, she was led into a huge room full of what looked like the sort of cages used for circus animals. The smell added to that impression with a gentle miasma of stale urine and faeces. Helen was hustled in to the nearest cage and her abaya hastily removed. She made no attempt to move as a shackle on a chain within the cage was fastened to her leg and the door closed.Then.
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