Well and the rest of the motley crew of course.”
Sadie squeezed her little girl closer and raised her chin slightly with her thumb. Through the crack he heard her weak voice, calling out his name. Phil watched her, waiting to see if the trembling would stop and she could calm down enough to get up and out the house. Another gulp of lukewarm tea, and he ran his hand over his face before grasping the nettle. The temperature hadn’t dropped much since they had entered the ramshackle house, and yet the air outside now felt bitterly cold to her, and she instantly began shivering again. You can be the strong girl in the hard hat for all those muscley men.” Dimples showed in her chubby cheeks as she grinned about that idea herself. It wrenched his heart to even watch his precious stepdaughter being raped by anyone but him, but at least from his vantage point he could join in somehow. well.. He noticed her very deliberately moving in slow-motion, Terry’s engine still humming away impatiently down the pathway. Terry noticed at once how the girl chose to go all the way around the far side of the car to meet him, putting ever more space between her and her prospective stepfather.
