The officer took it with a small smile, relaxing slightly. Guess I dont have to tell you that you were speeding, huh? No, he said simply, his voice ...frigid. The officer looked at his license first. Drake Atherton. Hey, arent you Dale Athertons boy? Yes. What a small world! I knew your dad back in the day. Has to have been fifteen years since I seen him last. That interested him, and he turned to look at the officer. Fourteen. Its been that long since Ive seen him, too. He took off when I. To say he has a problem is an understatement. A couple of days ago, my mother called. ‘Robbie?’ she said loudly into the phone as if I was standing yards from the receiver. ‘Robbie? You there?’ ‘Yeah, Ma, yeah,’ I answered, pulling the earpiece back, ‘I’m here, but I’m at work and can’t talk long.’ ‘Robbie you gotta speak up. You know my hearing is going.’ She said. ‘Sorry, Ma,’ I said, a little louder. ‘How are you?’ ‘Well, you know I’d be much better if you called once in a while.’ I rolled. He face flashed immediate concern and he swooped me up in his arms, and that made me start bawling for real. Damn it."Anna? What's up? You ok?" He asked with such tenderness, it made me just cry harder. Then as I tried to answer, I started hiccuping. Fuck me. I couldn't get words out, so I just nodded as fast as I could and started burrowing into his chest."Really?" He asked, concern turning to confusion."Ha... ... happy. So... happy." I managed to get out. He started laughing and squeezing. But Auggie couldn’t have done that alone. It would have taken both of them.Auugie laid her whip on a table beside the cross and picked up a couple of gadgets. She held one up to Kristen’s face — a copper clamp with ridged rubber tips, like something you’d get in a hardware store. She poked the other against Kristen’s titty. The spring was so tight it resisted her fingers: to bend it, she had to squeeze the levers in her fist. Then, just as the jaws widened to their fullest extent, she let go,.