Only the shattered stump of the information marker’s post remained.That explained why the owners had fenced off the spring. Someone had obviously va...dalized the place. Still, she thought it was a shame to box off such a beautiful location. She walked to the edge of the spring to look out over its frozen surface. As soon as she stood on the edge of the brick border, she saw it.In the very center of the pool, she saw a circle formed of crystalline structures within the ice. It was ringed by a. She unbelted the robe and stood with it open, contemplating the meadow and infinite ocean, with her bare feet on the tiles and her nipples still erect. She loved how her husband had poured his desire into her, thrilling to her new lingerie and eagerly peeling it off her. He was resting now, but she was still humming with the sexual energy he started. She smiled thinking of the night to come, a lovely walk to an intimate dinner, a late soak in the sauna, where maybe she would show off and. "I've checked his movements on the night in question by triangulatinghits on the cell towers. Before he went home he spent most of thenight in the bar and nightclub district of Balwyn. He made no phonecalls nor received or sent any texts after six PM," Alice continued."I ran his credit cards. On the night of he used it to pay for dinnerat Jimbo's Steakhouse and then he made a cash withdrawal at an ATM onSpence Street. There are no records of him using his cards to pay forhookers or. Like I’d said, there were close to a couple hundred guests and the odds of me wandering alone in the dusky twilight, dressed as I was, were pretty slim.“Hey, fairy girl,” he called out, suddenly alongside me, taking my elbow. 'He' being a very tall vampire or goth of some sort. I wasn’t quite sure what. Didn’t really matter, either.“Hi,” I managed, giggling a little between the ‘H’ and the ‘I’.“Need some help?”Did I need some help? Hell yeah. I needed help getting off again. I needed him to.