So, here I am, in the middle of dinner with a frozen ring.’ He opened the box, pulled out the hand-engraved platinum solitaire Taylor had created ju...t for Kendall. ‘Marry me, Kendall. I love you, baby and want you by my side forever.’ She liked romantic in the middle of dinner and the kitchen floor. She offered her left hand. ‘Of course I’ll marry you. I love you so much.’ Reid slid the ring on her finger, then tugged her down to him. ‘I believe we have to seal it with a kiss,’ he whispered. Framed in the background, a straight river with a thousand million concentrically overlapping waves, rippling together as rain fell out of the gloomy clouds, patternless to infinity. A playground, plastic and wood and steel, jungle gym and swings, slanted house; sitting damply in the invariably existing sandbox.I stood there, lost in the rain, until she tugged at my hand and we started forward. She. Her. The girl. For what would it be without one. As soaked as me. Ahead. Bolder, one must admit. She probably didnt know any other life than this. Rich also knew some of the tortures the girl had survived through, not because he witnessed them, but because Frank had bragged about them. She should have died a long time ago. His tortures should have killed her years ago. She defied all odds, and that was the light in her eyes. Shes yours now. Rich shook his head slightly, breaking his thoughts to comprehend what Frank just said. What? I said, shes yours now. Im giving her to you. Frank. They talked for a few seconds before the second young man turned and looked at Eva’s pussy. A few more seconds and they both turned and walked away.Eva was disappointed and wet. She finished her latte and left.Back at her flat, Eva stripped and the looked out of the window and saw no one. She opened her laptop then her email, then THAT email. She read it again, and was still undecided as whether or not just to delete it as spam or an extortion attempt, not that they could get much out of her,.