Then her mind was made up for her as a pleading voice spoke again."Oh, God! Yessss, yessss, do it to me like that!"It was her mother again, and her vo...ce was drunkenly slurred in a desperate pleading tone Patty had never heard before. The confused young girl paled in the darkness as a new and disturbing thought came into her mind. The man was obviously hurting her mother, but it didn't sound as if it were against her will, the way she was almost crying for him to continue.But perhaps he was. Talamia explained as she led Jake down the passageway. "The door acts like an airlock. There are two openings, one here and the other at the end of this corridor. This was made in the old days when it was considered very dangerous to let the mortals accidentally see something they weren't supposed to. This way, the worst a person who was not initiated would see was a stone wall with a secret passage." They were pretty paranoid back then, huh?"Talamia looked at him seriously. "They had good. Last weekend, I was sitting the cafe of my local Morrison’s having a coffee, when I spotted a fellow resident of the block walk in. As she looked round for a table, she must have seen me because the next thing I knew she was walking towards me. “Hello,” she said, “Mike isn’t it? Do you mind?” she said, pointing at the seat on the opposite side of the table. “No,” I replied, “feel free.”I’d seen her around the block but didn’t know much about her but now with her sitting a table’s width from me,. One of her most heart-warming memories was of Alan hurrying into the pool bleachers for one of Glen's swimming meets. The dual meets were usually early, right after school. Because he worked an early shift, he was one of the few fathers who would always be there.While the men went fishing that Sunday, their daughter Ellie, sixteen, was at her best friend's house.After a long, relaxing bath, Betty donned just a light robe, poured herself a glass of wine, and pulled a romance novel from a bottom.