Dating stories cheerleaderThey looked up in surprise at the young Virginian. “I’m sorry about taking off my clothes and calling you a perv, Lieutenant.” The lights changed to green. We pushed on. Motion somehow alleviated it, that sense of the Devil bearing down on us, contracting his tensile spine. “Why would I want to do that?” “Sh—!” “You have to be careful, Sandy,” he said. “I’m here unofficially, but other cops will lean on you. They want your friend in prison or dead.” ‘All is well with himself up above,’ he offered, although I had not enquired after my father’s health. He had not enquired after mine. “Yes?” The glass panels that separated him from the rear compartment were still slid back, with a gap of about two handbreadths between them. She was called Sab?na, the niece of his second wife, also Sab?na, who died giving birth to their second child. “See you tomorrow morning?” “I called and had tea with ‘your Polish woman’.” Would you know yet more? He looked back at me.“Only the angry ones,” he said. “So, yeah. All of them.” Thanks for the moral support, even if it’s a little late. I rubbed my thigh where Watts had hit me. He’d been kind to pick me up from the airport, and generous to offer another ride in the morning. But that’s not why I owed him my loyalty. I owed him because he was still here. I owed him my loyalty because he’d given the Antelope Valley — and me — his. in frost and heat my heart carefree. |