“I think I remember when. But why?”
“Why do you think, Sarah?”
She doesn’t know what to think, where to start, where to take her startled wonder. It takes some time, but then her mind finally lands on the truth…
“You know what, Martin? He really wanted to be rid of me after all…” She looks up, her face pale, her expression puzzled and unsure. “After all he put me through, the threats…the s*x…his ugly revenge…even then, I thought it was his game. I never really believed he’d follow through…”
“And get rid of you? Yes, he followed through, Sarah. But he didn’t sell you.”
“Only because the man I was supposed to f**k yesterday tossed me out the door. Because Joseph wasn’t there to take me home…because…” she stopped. Even her heart seemed to stop for just a second. “You didn’t have somethin
