Just lovely,elegant, well...perfect. We gave each other little air kisses and Iwalked in where we stood facing each other, taking in that we werefinal...y together for real.Mia's so much taller than I thought! She must be at least six feet four,plus more in her four-inch heels. I knew she works out but in her armlesstop her muscles really showed. I was memorized and had just walkedthrough her door. A bit older than myself, late 50s, she had dark hairframing her perfect face. She wasn't trying to. While Elizabeth was the belle of the Debutante’s Ball that coincided with the annual Agricultural Society Show held over Easter each year, Isobel was content to hover in the background. Not for her the superficiality of her sister’s friends, their frivolous chatter about nothing more serious than the latest modes to be found in the society dressmaker’s stores, and who was interested in whom. What Isobel didn’t realise was, that beneath this veneer of sophistication, emotions of a more basic. I wanted to be there for you—scratch this, I was there for you the whole time and while I kept loving you and putting up a brave front. I saw how she methodically chipped away your sanity one piece at a time for nothing more than her evil pleasure. You could have had me and you knew that all along. It's only now that your life is shattered in pieces that I'm good enough for you to come crawling back. How do you think this makes me feel?"She sighed as she saw the shame in his crimson-cheeked,. This resulted in my body being stretched in the form of an ?X?. In the middle of the frame there was a wide, beam from left to right and it had thick leather straps fastened to it. The straps were tightened across my waist and the widest strap had a thick padded cushion on it, which, I understood, was intended to protect my kidneys from too hard blows. After all, I was supposed to survive all the five thousand lashes in order to be branded after my public floggings. What would happen after.