I felt very attracted to her, but because of the nature of our firm’s services, and my senior position, I knew it would be inappropriate to become i...volved in any way.I had heard gossip that Kate was attracted to men with power, but nothing further.Once in a while she would be assigned to work on one of my projects, or I would see her in the halls. There definitely was an attraction building up, but I tried to keep my composure. It was agony. I started looking for her in the halls, or calling. The new Raul looked up at her. There had been no magical proclamationhere. He could speak freely, as long as it was with proper deference asbefitted his mistress, but he also understood how little power he had."You are the magnificent and beautiful Princess Saffie," he said,"daughter of the king."The new Princess Saffie smiled again and nodded. "Well done. It seems youfinally understand the way things are now."?6For the rest of the day, Princess Saffie ordered Raul to fetch and carryfor her.. She would understand, he would make damn sure of it. And if she didn't, well, then she would be made to understand in one way or another. He pulled the knife out of the branch at his leg and ran the blade across his thumb watching the blood bead. He stared at it, then licked it.He could have killed him tonight. Detective Nick Saint, superhero, had stood just feet away from him. He could have shot him. He could have jumped down from the tree and used the knife on him. But that wasn't part of the. I continued.“Once this starts it’s out of your hands. So far you’ve organised Rachel and me: you’ve been in charge, but once you give the go ahead, you will be powerless. She’ll be in charge.”“I know,” he said, “that’s part of the buzz.”“What Rod is saying,” added Rachel, “is that when you’ve had your fun and want it to stop, I may not want to stop, and if that’s the case, be sure of this Gary, I won’t stop. You need to be very clear about that. Rod may give me an appetite for it and if that’s.