“And not a ‘Master’ or ‘Mistress’ to be heard,” Master Salazar mused.“I’m sorry, Mistress, Master!”“So, you don’t want to leave ...his life,” Mistress Guzman said, her voice hard. “You instead want to bring shame on our Houses, on this city, on us personally. Then, when you should allow your attitude problems to be corrected, you instead cause us to lose more face. Your highest achievement is being ‘adequate’ as a urinal.“You ... how did Ramon put it? You ‘laid there like a slab of jello with a. I packed one compact suitcase with wigs, makeup, and essential items of clothing. Everything else that might be evidence regarding who I was or that I was in disguise was hidden.I stopped in the rental garage where Dag’s car was stored and dropped off my suitcase. Then Maizie dragged me down the hill toward the office and I reluctantly followed. Her goal, however, was not the office but the coffee shop on lower Queen Anne near the Seattle Center. I slipped into Tovoni’s the minute the door was. Sure does feel weird though every timeI twist and turn I can hear the plastic on the diaper making noise.I guess I should stop thinking about it. This sure has been a long day.Who would have believed something like this could happen to anyone. Imean damn, only I have this kind of luck, or I should say bad luck.The workday started like any other workday except when I woke up it wasover two months later. That was the good thing if you can believe that.Here I wake up and find out I was in a coma. Her guy had been really sweet, eventually proposing and marrying her. They’d always used protection, but somehow she’d become pregnant. Far from being sweet, he’d turned into a regular monster, telling her how much he didn’t want children. As she continued her story between mouthfuls, I found the milk was the right temperature, and started feeding Angela. She’d thought he would come round when he saw the baby, but it seemed to make him worse. Then one day when she was coming back from a visit.