Chapter 8: The Smith Family

She wiggled her lips, wanting to say with him that she was too sick to go. Wanted to explain, to tell the whole thing from beginning to end, but looked at them. The will to tell was lost. Alice was no longer Alice, she was Tony's wife, Tony's subordinate and Tony's pawn. He had given an order, and she naturally had to accept it. "I'll go." She answered indifferently, and then added, "Then you must promise to give me half a day's leave." She didn't say why, and Tony wouldn't pursue the matter,...