" Everyone has a future, honey." You know what I mean."I did. "I understand. You tried. You tried harder than anybody couldhave expected. Harder than ...I've ever seen anyone try before. Harder thanHobbes deserved. Sometimes ... you don't win." I've lost before ... but this time ... the price she's gonna pay." Maybe we can help her." Maybe. It's gonna be bad, Mom." I know, honey. Look, if you promise me that you'll wrap this up as soonas reasonably possible, I'll go back to Hobbes with you. Nope, she definitely couldn’t press this matter legally. But…but she still had the woman over a barrel and could use that to her advantage if she played it just right. She remembered her earlier conversation with Maureen about making this woman get fat…and now…now here it was just playing out for her without any instigation on her part. So could this work? She stared at the scrawny little bitch. She had at least four or five inches on her in height…and a good hundred pounds probably in. Lisa told me to get undressed and sit on a little platform built in a corner. The platform had a padded seat built into the base with a movable head piece. After I sat in the seat, I noticed that there were restraints built into the armrests and around the chest and leg areas. My arms were secured immediately and so were my legs and chest. Then the head piece was positioned so that my face was pointed toward the ceiling. Then my head was strapped into place so I could not move it.Lisa kicked. Whatever twisted humiliation he demanded, she could only protest so long before he'd threaten to drag her "little slut daughter" up to suffer instead. My mother always relented, to the great amusement of the boys who'd then taunt, as she screamed, that it was all my fault.So many times, I pleaded with her to leave him. There were times, lots of times, when she'd break down crying, apologizing for things she wouldn't name, and begging my forgiveness. But she never left. "Leo's been so good to.