If it weren’t for her and my children, I’d be in a very dark place right now. Hell, you saw me, I’m in that dark place now when they’re not ar...und me.”By then we’d gotten into the beers, and our wives showed up and gently led us home....We’d been in the village for almost a year, and while we often talked of going to California and live in the cabin Maddy had, I don’t think either of us were serious, because we liked the quiet little village, removed from the turbulent world we’d lived in. The. Saturday morning I woke up with a hangover in some strange surroundings and when I got out of bed and scratched my balls I found out they had been shaved that night before. I looked down and all I could see was that some sick bastard had written all over me, "Property of Shannon. Do not touch". I stumbled into the bathroom had a shower, none of it would come off so I got out and dried off. I looked around for my clothes and there weren't any. There was a video tape standing up on the top of the. “You’re not the press though, are you?” Then he frowned. “And you look a little young for that anyway.”I was seventeen, and though I could probably pretend to be nineteen, any more was pushing it. I decided to ignore the second part of the policeman’s question, and concentrate on the first, it was easier. “I’m not employed by anyone, I’m freelance. I sell to the press, I do photographs for books, and I’ll let you have all the originals, and I’ll even sell them to the insurance companies as well. She wore dangling earrings and a matching dainty necklace of silver and onyx. Her feet were shod in the same style clear stiletto heels she had worn on the Master's previous visit, except these heels were even higher and gave her small frame an added measure of height as well as tipping her forward to display her body even more sensuously. Her makeup was even less than Vivian's, keeping her little girl appearance by the judicious use of rouge, eye shadow and lip gloss.In short his slaves were.