In the morning, Frankie awoke early and realized that he was still atthe bottom of the bed curled up at his Helen s feet. He had fallenasleep at the f...ot of the bed and for a brief moment while he stretchedout the kinks imagined that he was a slave girl servicing her master.With that delicious image in his mind, he slipped out of bed to get ashower. He reminded himself that he couldn t take his pills for the nextten days.Washing his hair and then using a body wash on his tender flesh,. "Just, don't abuse the power, okay?" I asked him kindly."I promise I won't," he said. "I'll only put friendly reminders about workon there."I nodded, hoping he was telling me the truth.---Photo shoots and commercial shoots were starting to feel routine to me. Inever would have expected that to happen before the summer started. Butnow, as we pulled up to the studio where the Jive commercial was going tobe shot, I realized that it was just another part of the job.Dad said that he had been told. "Corra," I held out my arms to her. "Sweetie you scared all of us.Please take one of us with you next time," I tried to reason with her."I'm sorry Mommy," she hugged me."So you taught Precious how to play fetch," I smiled."Malissa, she would disappear and that beast would go find her and bringher back," said Monica."Oh," I giggled. "You taught her to play hide and seek. Did you havefun?" Yes Mommy. Thank you for not getting mad at me," I hugged her tightlykissing her cheek."Malissa, you need to. This was due to the fact that the entire Caervon family had gone to their summer home for a week. Arielle had, according to the servants, begged and cajoled her parents to let Belle go, but this time her usually adoring parent’s put their feet down. It was match-making season. And the eldest Caervon son was the target. Apparently Beric’s little sister Rose was the potential match, so her family was staying at the summer home as well. Personally, Belle felt bad for Arielle if she had to be.