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Female Sought After Attacking Youth: Part Three
The following day, Trudy returns to work, seeing work friends gathered around a desk.
Part Three: Returning to work the next day
Trudy had felt Bill’s presence in bed and the thought of him coming onto her, but her powerful, outstretched arm prevented him from getting any closer. She’d made it seem like a reflex action in her sleep, but that wasn’t the case.
She’d heard him sigh and roll away from her and had been glad; besides, he had reeked of stale beer. Trudy knew their relationship had been going awry for some time, and it hadn’t all been Bill’s fault. Her temper flared more than it used to, and she didn’t know why. There hadn’t been another guy in her life, yet she knew she was drifting away from him.
It didn’t help that he sought refuge down the pub, but Bill didn’t have many vices, to be fair. He was quite good-looking in a rough and ready sort of way, and perhaps that was what attracted her to him. Rough and ready suited her fine in adolescence, and why wouldn’t it? She was the toughest girl around.
But although her temper might not have abated, there had been subtle changes in her outlook. Trudy was aware that her sympathetic leanings towards the elderly conflicted with her more tempestuous ways…
