Chapter 9 #3
He put his hands over his dick, and she laughed.
It was the most fun she’d had all day with him, and she was glad that he understood that she’d do it too.
As soon as he was chained back up, he asked about spending the night again, and she didn’t bother answering him.
She’d said no, and that was final. He hated it when she said that to him, she’d noticed and was glad that she’d been able to work it into a conversation with him.
The man was an idiot, and she didn’t like that the state was going to be taking care of him for the next year while he waited on his trial.
He should have been sent to prison with the rest of the perverts, and that would have been the end of her contact with him.
She didn’t like him simply for the reason that he’d hurt Elaine.
Shipley thought that was a good enough reason to hate anyone.
As she made her way home, she thought about the tests that she’d run, making sure that she didn’t forget one. Not that she’d go back and redo it, but she didn’t want to have to see him again. Not only was he whiny about things, she thought that he was a little shitter too.
Dusty was home when she got there, and she was glad to see him. When she explained what she’d been doing, he got a kick out of the fact that she’d had to yell at him several times about his attitude.
“He’s worse than a little kid.” He told her that he’d heard that about him from Elaine. “I don’t know how she put up with him at the school when she was there. And with him wanting her to be his mistress, he must have been really bad.”
“He didn’t bring it up with her until the day he beat her up.
She’d had no clue that he wanted anything like that from her.
” Shipley asked what he’d said to her about it.
“Nothing much the day before. He just acted like he normally does when she was there. Friendly and talked to her a little too closely. But she just wrote that off as being like he was. It wasn’t until he was beating her to shit that he made his intentions clear to her.
At least that’s what I heard from Knox.”
“I guess he would know.” Shipley kissed Dusty on the mouth and told him that she loved him. “I love you so much that I sometimes wonder if I’m going to bust with it.”
“You are such a romantic.” She snorted at him, and he laughed. “There’s my girl. How about we get in touch with my brothers and see if they want to have dinner tonight? It’s the cook’s night off, so we’d have to go out anyway. It might be fun to get all together.”
“I’d love that. Someplace with a buffet. I was hoping for something that I could get my fill with.” He said that he knew of two places that she might like, and he let her pick while he contacted his family. “How about soon, too. I’m suddenly starving.”
By the time he had contacted his family, she had showered and changed.
She didn’t want to smell like David did and was glad that she’d been able to wash some of him off her.
Getting dressed in something casual, she was glad that the others were able to meet them there.
She was going to have to get herself something small to eat, or she’d never make it.
As she was making herself some cheese and crackers, Dusty joined her in the kitchen.
“They’re all for it.” Good, she told him that would be fun for them.
“I’ve called ahead to the restaurant to let them know that there would be about fifteen people with the kids who would be coming in.
They said that they’d have us a room and would put in some extra platters for us when we arrived. I thought that was nice of them.”
“I do too. We don’t want to make it so that they’ll go out of business because we decided to show up.
” He said that they could put a dent in some buffet stuff when they were all hungry.
“All right. If you’re ready to go, we can head there.
Locke and Alex will be a little late, but they said to start without them.
They’re shopping for baby things and have to unload their car before they can go. ”
The drive was about twenty minutes, but it seemed longer.
She really was hungry and wanted to eat sooner rather than later.
Shipley knew that she shouldn’t have skipped lunch while working, but she wanted to get the tests done and over with for David.
He’d been too much of a pain in the ass for her to want to linger all that long waiting for the rest of the tests if she’d stopped long enough to eat.
Her way, she was only gone an hour rather than the two that it would have normally taken her to get through them all.
She didn’t even wait to sit down, but went right up to the buffet line to get something so she’d not be so starved.
There was soup to be had, too, but she wanted something substantial in her belly, and soup wouldn’t cut it.
She was glad to see that two others from their party had joined her, and she wasn’t the only one who was starving.
There was a lot to be said for buffets, and getting food immediately was one of the best perks she could find.
After her second plate, she was able to slow down a bit.
While still hungry, she wasn’t as starved as she’d been.
Tasting the food now rather than gulping it down, she was happy when the restaurant refilled most of the trays.
She was getting her fourth plate of food when someone brought up Martha.
She didn’t mind them talking about her because she wished that she could have gotten to meet the woman.
She did a lot for the men in her life, and she wanted to be able to thank her for it.
“She loved buffets. Though I don’t know why, she rarely ate enough to feed a bird.
” Jack brought up the fact that they ate a lot and perhaps didn’t notice when she refilled her plate.
“That could be it. We could eat like we’d been starved whenever we came here.
This was one of her favorite places to eat. ”
“Remember when she took us to that seafood place out on Vine? We never went back after they told us that we could only have one plate of food per person. Martha wrote a review about the place, and I think they went out of business the following year. I know it wasn’t much too long after we’d been there. ”
“They’d been having trouble anyway.” Shipley had heard that one scathing remark from Martha would shut a place down faster than the city could.
She was glad that she’d had nothing to do with a place going under.
“I think that’s why they said we could only have the one plate.
They were trying to keep people in the seats and save money on the food bill.
That’s a sad way to have a place that is supposed to be all you can eat. ”
They talked about the days that they’d had this week, and even she had something to comment on, too.
The other women, especially Elaine, had plenty to say as well, and she was happy for it.
It had been approved that she could hire her as an assistant, and Shipley was thrilled.
It would make the work that she had to do less boring to her, and having a second set of hands would make things go faster, too.
She wouldn’t cut corners, not on something like that, but it would be nice to have someone to talk to when they were getting ready or finished up.
She liked Elaine and was looking forward to working with her.
She loved working with the other women, too, but there was something so special about Elaine that she enjoyed her company, too.
She was smart and funny, and she had a second sense about her that made Shipley think she’d be the perfect person to work with under stress.
It could be stressful working as medical personnel, and she wanted someone there who would make it seem less stressful for the two of them.
She knew that she had picked the perfect person for the job.