” Marek said softly as he walked up to the pedestal. He looked to be trying to fight back tears.“When I was eighteen, just before I left the orpha...age, my best friend was raped.” Marek pressed a small button on the pedestal and a silver box rose up from the stone pillar.“He couldn’t cope with the shame of it, with the feeling that he was so vulnerable. John took his own life.”Tears were streaming down Marek’s face as he opened the silver box and took out a silver collar and chain.The collar was. He smiled, his words flowing easily and compellingly. “She had reached such a peak of anticipation and arousal that she could be denied no longer. And I wanted her”. He told the tale.Four of them had left the back door of the old convent that day, Dmitri told her; they cast dark shadows in the bright, summer sunshine. Alexandra was stark naked save for a length of barbed wire wrapped tightly around her head; Dmitri, Grigori and Leon wore simple smocks belted at the waist. Each carried a. “Yep! That’s exactly what I mean!” Elaine grinned back. “You find the exact one I’m thinking about!”“Sounds like work to me,” mumbled Miranda.“We won’t be looking for forks,” giggled Annalisa. “It’ll be fun!”“Okay,” Miranda replied, not certain at all.They concentrated on creating a common space in the center of the circle. Murielle linked up with her twin and, as she did, she felt Annalisa’s mind link with hers and Elaine casually embracing them all.“You all remember what the Praetor looks. To add to my surprise she was pulling a serving trolley with no food on it all it was having a bottle of scotch soda and snacks. She came towards me and sat there on the bed and said that she knew that I sometimes take a peg or two so she has arranged for it before.I could say something she made two pegs and said cheers giving me the glass of whisky my through was dry so I gulped the whole peg in one sec. she poured another one in and then the third one after a few minutes the scotch was having.