We also discovered that filling our stomachs with warm water also helped to reduce our pangs of hunger, so we drank considerable quantities of tea so ...that we didn’t want to eat quite as badly as we otherwise would.We were putting ourselves through that purgatory for a worthwhile cause though. That cause was our freedom to be together, away from Mistress’ army and any of my surviving associates within the resistance; assuming that any were still alive and would recognize me any longer. . By the time I realizedit I had come to enjoy it. Then she dropped the bomb.“Alice, it was so very wonderful being excited andloved by someone who didn’t just want a fuck. Shewanted to share herself with me. I returned time andtime again to that wonderful person. The irony, if thatis what you call it, is that once when we were in bedat our house and John walked in. He was so furious thathe hasn’t tried to get in bed with me since!”Raising my head, I looked at this lovely. We looked up and saw the prosecutor coming to his table along with Jim, the black witness. Jim looked terrified. He sat down and kept looking around, especially at me.The prosecutor handed Bob a piece of paper. It was a police report. Bob read it and then handed it to me. Ralph was found dead in an alley behind the bar where he and Jim hung out. The report stated that sometime after midnight Ralph had stepped out into the alley to take a piss. He had told Jim he would be right back. After not. I remember some deep V-neck sweaters, tight slacks, and body-hugging salwar-kameezes. Her broad hips and ample figure did great justice to those clothes.Once I remember a braless appearance in a red V-neck sweater. It was winter and her nipples were popping. From the moment she walked in, they stood erect. I remember thinking deep protectiveness and grabbing a shawl from back home so she could cover herself, as I didn’t want her to be leered at.I remember a sweet quick kiss on my lips. I.