Alene scrubbed at her skin until it was pink, almost glowing with the abrasive way she washed herself. Rinsing off, she almost slammed the shower tap ...ome. Standing in the shower stall, she let the warm steam consume her whole.She made her escape from the warmth of the bathroom and slipped back to her bedroom, the cold floors shocking her feet. It was raining again, the drips of rain falling in a constant and steady stream, the sound of raindrops pinging and then slipping down her bedroom. He is definitely an asshole.” The bartender grinned at my assessment. “I probably shouldn’t say anything. But I’ve worked here for a while, and I’ve seen him around. Typical Thursday night crowd arrogance. Him and his friends wander in and pretend like they’re high rollers and hit on all the skirts. I just pour the drinks and laugh mostly. But you know… these guys are all the same. They want to feel like men, but in the end they’re all just boys. And never appreciative of what they have at. The scene opened to a shot of Madge dressed in a tight blackleather basque, stockings and suspenders and black knee length boots with extremelyhigh heels. She was pointing to the floor in front of her with a flogger; aman appeared, sank down to his knees and prostrated himself before her. Itwas my father, but not the man I knew or admired. This man was naked exceptfor a black collar around his neck, to which was attached a leash. She toldhim that he had been a bad boy and that he should be. If I’d focused on UI, for example, I’d probably have ended up in Seattle or San Jose. Website design might have put me in DC. Part of getting to go where you want to is knowing what programs are located there and focusing your training and testing on those programs.”“Wow! Livy wants to take her NSAT tomorrow. She’s psyched about being able to control the test results,” I said. “I think she’ll do well. After she studied the sample results a couple of weeks ago, she was able to test into the.