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"Praise the Lord," Fuller said, and the crowd cheered as if they were at a World Cup football match, not a church service "I know you all aren’t here to see me I knoho you caoing to hurt hi his eyes so hard

"It’s Wednesday night," Fuller continued "And that’s Ladies’ Night So I’ll get out of the way now and let ht have been a beautiful woious zealotry Her dark eyes burned with God’s fire, and the smile she aimed at the caed a chaste kiss as he handed the pulpit off to her The crowd applauded the kiss, at her wave to the ot behind the microphone

"My handsome husband," Lucy Fuller said into the casley was getting ideas

"I want to talk about soan "I want to talk to you all about soh in this world And that is sin"

The crowd got very quiet

"We live in a dark world," Lucy continued "And it’s getting darker everyday You only have to turn on the television to see it--pornography being sold to our children as music videos, movies that teach our kids it’s okay to have sex whenever they feel like And holy accepted by society every day as if it was just another way to be and that’s okay Well, it’s not okay Not okay at all"

And the croild

Lucy’s tirade went on for the next thirty ht in public schools that encouraged godlessness, politicians at the highest levels of office who cheated on their wives while telling everyone else how to live, network television for showing teenagers having sex without consequences, stores selling pornography, explicitabortions left and right, kids painting their fingernails black and worshipping Satan

This was a worit his teeth to do it, Kingsley stayed for the entire ser in the entire world that gave anyone the tiniest bit of pleasure or entertain fro ovation froe in tears, overcosley slipped out the front and waited by the stage door in the back He didn’t have to wait long

Ten minutes after the end of her sermon, Lucy Fuller stepped out the door into the alley She’d changed froth skirt and white frilly blouse to a plain black skirt and blouse She’d repaired herand now looked calm and collected

He didn’t speak to her, didn’t let himself be seen But he did follow her She walked purposefully, her high heels clicking on the concrete in a quick staccato Where was she going in such a hurry? Kingsley had to know Once he noted the sley headed back to his own When she pulled out of the parking lot, he tailed her He kept several cars between them, made sure she never noticed he took the same turns she took After a fewback into the city, back toward Manhattan She was alone and in a hurry All good signs she was doing so

In twenty-five minutes, they were in familiar territory In a few sley fell back as far as he could without losing her entirely She got away froain She’d pulled up in front of a house