It smelled of piss, shit, and unwashed human. Lying there was a woman who looked resigned to her fate, but was not dead yet.Nancy woke her and explain...ed the situation; namely, that her husband had hired us to find her. We figured that he deserved the credit, and his wife needed to know that. We helped her to stand, but she was too weak to climb out of the box by herself. Once she was out of the box, that woman showed more good sense than the average person would have—she shed all of her stinky. . andI'm sure if I kissed Tess that wouldn't bother you either, right?"She noticed the glance I shot at Tessa and smiled. "Yes, it's okay. Iknow that Tess told you about me and her, and that's fine. Anyway, thequestion isn't whether there's something wrong with kissing another boy.It's just a matter of how Alannah feels about kissing Kevin. And sinceshe's here, why don't we ask her?"She held up an imaginary microphone, as if interviewing me. "But that'sthe thing," I said, the frustration. Orville tells me that in the past before my memory loss, that I protected some bullies on the team. That changes right now. I won't have a bully on my football team."Tom groaned and said, "Coach, where are you keeping your pod?"Robyn and I laughed. The sheriff smiled.I looked at the sheriff. "Sooner or later, do bullies end up in your jail?" Yep," he said. "Sooner more often than later, and some of them end up in prison doing hard time."I said, "The bullies on the team—I have the names of two. But I’m YOURS Master! Don’t you at least want to be clear that he can only do things YOU say are okay, Sir?” Karen whined like I’d loaned a favorite toy out and didn’t care if it was returned or not.“Philbert is special, Honey,” I began. “He’s harmless but he’s got a little sadistic streak in him that I can fully appreciate. He’s let some people walk all over him and yet he insists on thinking the best of them. People like you. If he forgets that you belong to me though, I WILL set him.