And Freddie felt a lot of repressed thoughts about his friend well up as he brought his hand to her face. And that's when things went sour fast.Sam wa...nted the kiss to last forever, but she winced back in pain, her body beginning to contort. She began screaming and Freddie could hear bones crunching and reforming, and the colour of her skin was lightening to Jade's porcelain shade and darkening the hair to the jet black and coloured locks of Jade. Somewhere in the middle of the transformation,. Looking in the mirror, I could see that Dr. Richards was still there. That said, a level was missing. It looked fairly good, but I could tell why it was second rate. I had learned a thing or two. Next we went to the neighborhood used car lots. This was where an in-house mechanic was handy. He could listen to an engine and tell me the sticker price was bogus. It took about three cars before I could convince the salesman to give me a real price. In this, the term ‘cash sale’ was magic. Even then. Maybe it isn't worth fighting, I thought. Why the hell make Duane mad at me when he's my boss? He might give me a raise or something if I put out. I shivered and sat up. You know why you fight, don't you, Lee! Because you're scared to death of him! Because he's not just talking about balling you... not that sonofabitch!Just about that time, Mark came back from breakfast and said something about going out to kick around a football with some of the kids. Said he wouldn't be in until about lunch. I don’t know what happened next as everything went black. I woke up on a stretcher as I was carried out of the hotel and into the ambulance. Police were there and I was tied to the stretcher so I wouldn’t fall off and open my wounds. They had cut my arm with their huge knife and left me there to bleed out. Luckily someone found me and called help. Karen had disappeared and police didn’t know where she was. I was crushed, and in the hospital they had to tie me down or d**g me to keep me in my.