When it was obvious she would eat no more he quickly cleaned the remains of the meal, giving her no opportunity to help. Then he pulled her coat out o... the entryway closet, helped her shrug into it then donned his own. Taking her hand he led her down to the path beside the lake. For the first few moments Helen was silent. When she again began talking she was angry. She demanded to know how and why he felt he had the right to meddle in her affairs. Duncan held himself to quiet apologetic. Usually he stays miles away from the actual work. Once in a while he provides a little muscle for drug deals and things like that. He might have gotten recommended for the gig. He almost surely recruited Honey," Lucas said."So there is at least a chance he knows the Harvard Chink?" I asked."Yeah. but most likely there was a cutout." Lucas said. I could tell he had been talking to the Swamp Thing intel officer. On this operation it was the older man who earlier had shadowed Lucas to Tryon." So. “Daddy, am I a sinner?” Nessa asked nervously.Stefan stopped abruptly and looked at her, “Why on earth would you ask that?”“After everything that you have taught me, I still have wants and desires which I know are wrong.” She replied not being able to make eye contact with her father, and then quietly she carried on. “I have acted on those desires on a few occasions, and shared my body with others.” She remained quiet waiting for her father to respond.“Let me answer that by asking you a. I wanted to drive him wild and as no one knew me it didn't matter what they thought. All that mattered was that he desired me and I planned that as the evening progressed his desire would grow and grow. He couldn't take his eyes off me all through dinner and kept telling me how beautiful I looked, he told me that he had noticed the waiter thought so too and that he too couldn't take his eyes off me. Your a very sexy young woman Annabel and I think you know it. I laughed and winked at.