The most feint footfall from behind barely reached her ears. Amber gasped aloud. Her heart pounded hard within her chest. Her stomach knotted feeli...g almost sick. Her feet clicked quickly upon the walk beneath her. Click, click, a mottled echo? click, her heel upon the walk? click? something was not right about the echo. Amber knew it now. Her heart stopped between beats as though it must listen for itself. A shadow ahead of her moved. The shape of a man? she stopped. It was dark, too. “Right Ellie, across my lap please” she snapped. Ellie whimpered as she bent down and edged herself across the older woman’s lap. Mrs Howard put her hand on the young girl’s bottom and rubbed gently in circles her hand covering her whole bottom. A small pert bottom which Mrs Howard could cover in spanks in no time at all. “So Ellie, a spanking it is for you. Are you ready?” “Yes Mrs Howard” Ellie almost whispered. The first part of the bottom spanking stung. Those spanks were. " I'm fine," Mavis said. "I have to go to the bank. Call me again tonight. I have to do some things and I want to get them done. By the way, Phil, I was disturbed by you guys' talk last night--about some-one robbing Willie and the store. Is that really possible?" It would be easy as pie," Phil said tersely. "If certain people knew what the hell they were doing."That bothered her all the way downtown to the bank, while she was filling out the withdrawal slip and getting the cash in twenty-dollar. Is she pissed at me about the pheromones? What's this about Paulette? What... "Have you thought about our daughter?" Adriana said out of the blue, or at least it seemed that way to Van who was convinced that Paulette wasn't the real subject.He tried to focus on what his wife had asked, but there was a big blank place in his mind that her question seemed to conjure up. Shit, what has Paulette got to do with this? We're here to talk about Lillian, aren't we?"Uh..." You don't have a clue, do you?".