Smiling sexily, she moved to the couch beside me and ask if I would massage her back. ‘Sure,’ I said. Just let me get some lotion from my bathroo.... I began by kneading her shoulders and back, moving down to her long legs. Using a mixture of hard and soft strokes, I could feel her body loosening up. I slowly turned her over and unbuttoned her gown, exposing her firm breasts with erect nipples surrounded by dark red areola. Connie looked up at me dreamily, her eyes half-closed, her crimson lips. I mean, I’ve got really big hands and I don’t want to hurt you.”I smiled, “I begged you to try. If it doesn’t work, then at least you had the chance to try, right?”Dave grinned. Then he looked me in the eyes and said, “If you want me to try, then hell yes, I would love to! But listen, you really don’t have to be my 24/7 slave. I know you are a woman used to calling the shots. I just really appreciate you humoring me this weekend. Tomorrow we can stay for event, or we can just go home. I will. ‘I was stunned by it. Now, I’m embarrassed.’ ‘I could say that there is no reason to be, but you may not mean that in a personal sense. In the neurology and psychiatry career game, yes, you have been slightly embarrassed.’ ‘Oh,’ she said sighed, shaking her head, ‘personally, too. I looked like a nut case. Talk about alarming.’ ‘I don’t think I’ve seen that one in the DSM IV,’ said Bell. She laughed. Her dark eyes had a way of catching the light. Like a gem, thought Bell. ‘It has to be in. The picture revealed her and her late mother. The mother she had loved and given up everything but her own life to protect. Cloud didn’t regret her choices. Given the chance, she’d go through it again if it would mean saving her mother. How many years Cloud had lived with the abuse her stepfather had dealt out, she didn’t quite remember. But she did remember, clear as day, when this picture had been taken. It had been a day of both good and bad memories. Things she cherished in her heart. It.