She was crying in shame, desperately trying not to be sick. She had wet her pants in her terror, unable to stop herself as the insidiousness of his bl...ack thoughts flowed over her. He wanted to carve her up, to slip inside her body and lay in her warm flesh. He wanted to slice off her nipples and hang them up to dry. He wanted to drink her blood from the wounds as if he was a newborn infant. He wanted her blood on his hands, to bath in it, to become new again in her. He picked up the knife. . I'm flat broke. I was hopin' you might could use some help with your herd."He saw the older woman stiffen at his use of the word "whiskey," but that wasn't so odd. Lots of women had no use for the devil's drink. He ate more stew, which was delicious and full of chunks of meat.Though he presumed it was the woman who was in charge here, it was the young cowboy who spoke."We're just building a herd," he said. "Gathering strays from cattle drives like the one you were on. Doing some farming too,. But, if we recommended someone and they didn’t make it through the whole year, then whoever recommended them would be kicked out.” Megan was starting to see what was going on, “So you don’t think I can do all the things you did? You think I don’t like sex or something?” Shelly let out a little smile, “Sweetie, I know you like sex and I know you think you would do everything they tell you to do, but…” “But what?” “Some of the things are pretty out there.” “You told me what you had to do. I want. Irrational prejudice, like I said. I guess I should have told them he was Jewish before he picked me up for our first date. But I didn’t, and things got a bit tense when my parents invited him in. They were all smiles until they asked him his last name. Zach picked up the bad vibe right away. ‘Your parents have a problem with me, don’t they?’ he said as he drove me to the movie in his dad’s Buick. ‘I thought so,’ he said when I began to stammer Then he again told me the story about the girl.