I’ll go to the palace and request a squad of the baron’s guards.”“Wait,” Venni said. “If they’re there, we don’t want them escaping, a...d if they’re not, we’d just be wasting the baron’s time. We should go in and check.”“You don’t want reinforcements?”“I don’t want people panicking and getting in my way. I’ve fought demons before, and I was sent here to make sure no more of your people get killed.”Hearing the lie, Ellerie scowled. Venni had been sent—before any people had been killed—to take. “Are you sure?”“God yes,” she moaned.----------------------Camille and I had been seeing one another exclusively for several months. Our sexual encounters had been adventurous and satisfying. Twice we’d attempted anal sex, but both times she couldn’t relax enough. Both times she’d apologized. “If it happens, it happens,” was my response. It would be her choice and her choice alone. Camille was an amazing lady and jeopardizing our still-blossoming relationship wasn’t worth forcing the issue.. It is good to see you again."Snart raised his right hand and both yeomen began serving us with a soup. "Bob, what we have made for you are all foods you can digest and should taste good to you, but I do not know if it can compare with the meal you provided us with at your home," said Snart.I sipped the soup and it was kind of a potato soup, with small bits of meat, herbs, and what appeared to be a pasta-like substance. "This is very good indeed Captain, I expect the whole meal will be much more. All four of us went inside, we found her parents lying in bed. Her mother must have had a heart attack from the note her father left. He wrote that he loved his children but could not live without his wife. There was an empty bottle of sleeping pills and a water glass on the bedside table where we found the two of them.Shirley read the note and nodded and sobbed. She knew the devotion that her father had toward his wife, her mother. She said, "He always said that he would never be able to.