Luc did the same. Maria picked up her phone to do so as Helen opened the secret passage and stepped through.“I need to ... I dunno.” She said plai...ly as they all stood to leave. “Close my eyes for a bit and ... hope Dietz doesn’t ... kill any more of The People before then, I guess. Maria, please show the Generalissimo and Luc out. Mander, you know where your room is. I’m...”Lady Maria and Mander understood. She couldn’t think of anything to say but what she’d said twice already.“I’m sorry,. ”“I don’t get it,” she sighed. “We treated her almost exactly the same as we treated you.”“And she’s not me, is she? I mean, even besides being a girl.”“No. I guess I learned a lesson today. Just because a parenting method worked for one child, it doesn’t mean it will work for all children. You kids remember that when you have your own.”“NOW who’s having us engaged?” I chuckled.“Aren’t you? You’re sitting there, holding hands, with Jocelyn acting like the supportive wife. You didn’t call Dale.. After a few minutes I unbuttoned her coat and slipped my hands on to her waist as we kissed. She sprang apart and laughed as I nuzzled her neck, moving back to her lips we carried on kissing.Another few minutes past and I started to rub her tits she moaned slightly, as we kissed I lifted up her warm top and fondled her tits. She suddenly stopped, pulled away and said “Where?” I took my coat off and laid it on the dirty ground and said “Here”. She looked at me and smiled. I resumed where I’d. ”“That’s not in doubt,” she said as the gold leaf-covered minarets atop the Presidential Palace came into view. The embassy was a few blocks away.“It may be the government that has her, Contessa.”“I don’t think so. Supreme Comrade and President-for-Life Kiburi enjoys beating his chest on television too much to be this quiet about it. And he knows better than to cross me. There’s a reason nobody stopped me from entering the country with sixteen men loaded down to start a war.”“So, the stories.