"How is the hand now Hove? Better I trust?" Better then that blaggard's head. I will wager you that, Holmes."Ned laughed lightly " I do not doubt it! ... am not foolhardy enough to bet on a certainty." Holmes paused, interrupted by a loud metallic squeal, "Come Hove, we have arrived, and the Randolph Hotel awaits us."Bernadette Machin busied herself, as she hated to be unproductive. The feather duster flicked efficiently across the reception desk. Distracted she paused."Gentlemen may I be of. I’m about as far from being a good person as you can get.’ Dr. Moll didn’t push the point, he asked about his ‘second father.’ ‘Hamid. He’s my biological father, the one who I got all of this from.’ He pointed to his head. ‘You think you inherited your brain from Hamid?’ Nicholas shrugged his shoulders. ‘I look like his twin. I inherited almost everything else about me from him.’ ‘But you never knew him until recently. You spent all of your formative years with Tyler as a father, and what. Tears started flowing from her eyes. “So were gonna have some fun with your, fucking fine piece of woman here. And you are lucky enough to have front row seats to her, wreckage.” He said, licking his lips. No. no no no. This couldn’t be happening. No way. Not in our own home. I was utterly helpless, tied to a chair, surrounded by 3 large black men about to rape my beautiful girlfriend. Right in front of me. In our own bed. One of the other thugs chimed in, we can call him Thug 2.“I had no idea. Alice handed Megan a mug of freshly poured hot chocolate, all before she climbed up the ladder to her bed.Within seconds, Megan climbed the ladder to the top bunk bed to sit with Alice. She nuzzled into the brunette girl, cuddling up to the pleasant warmth of her body. She even planted a kiss onto Alice's cheek, and afterwards, she let out a little giggle of embarrassment."I can't stay up too late; I have work in the morning," Alice responded to Megan's kiss."Come on...just for half-an-hour,".