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"You touch me and kill you!" I said in a cold voice I rose stiffly, planted my feet wide apart, put my hands on the table to steady e I kne to turn into Malcolet what I wanted, when I wanted

Look at her, afraid no her eyes were big and scared I curled my upper lip and showed my teeth, then allowed both lips to curl into a sneer "Woet the hell away from me before I lose control of myself!"

Silently, E roo for the hall so she could protect Cindy

All day I waited E in my hole in the shrubs, so she left Cindy alone in her sandbox under the shade of a huge old oak tree Had a pretty little canopy too Nothing too good for Cindy, and she was only adopted

She tittered when she sawto be an oldthere half naked, nothing on but little green and white shorts She'd grow up, beco men to be their worst And she'd betray the man who loved her, betray her children too Butbutif she were ugly, what ly Wouldn't be able to charm men then I'd save all her children from what she'd do later on Save the children, that was important

"Barr-tee," she said, sed so I could see her lacy panties beneath her play shorts "Play, Barr-tee? Play with Cindy?"

Plu to "seduce" me! Only two years old and a few months and already she knew all the wicked ways of women

"Cindy," called Emma from the kitchen, but I was do and she couldn't see ht?"

"Cindy's playing sand castle!" answered little nobody, as if to protect me Then she picked up her favorite red sand pail and offered it to me--and the red and yellow shovel too

In hter "Pretty Cindy," I crooned softly as I crawled closer, putting a sweet sle

"Pretty Cindy wants to play beauty parlor"

She clapped her hands "Ohhh," she trilled "Nice"

The blonde hair in ed at her hair and took the ribbon fro her my pearl-handled knife "So don't you screamjust sit quietly in the beauty parlor until I've finished"

In my room I hadthem, and use them at least five ti words in order to impress people, make them knoas smarter

Inti Got that--meant to make people scared of you