She froze and her head slowly turned to look up, over her shoulder."Ow," she said softly.There was a smoky look in her eyes. He could see both of them...now, because her hair had fallen away from her face. The bare left side of her scalp gleamed. He had no idea why, but it looked erotic as hell. When she didn't stand up immediately, instinct made him slap her tight butt again."Ow," she said again. Then she stood up and turned to face him. "You're very bold." I'm the most feared pirate on the. .. but your wife was a whore.”“No fucking way,” I said jumping up.“Michael, please sit down.”“We believe Jennifer was being blackmailed to be a whore by your boss, a Mr. Bob Kibble. We are hoping he’ll be there on Friday. We believe he is working with Nancy’s sister Diane and her husband.”“Why was she being blackmailed?”“To protect you, Michael. I know you didn’t do it but someone took lots of money from the company. We believe he told Jennifer that he will would call the police and tell them. Her mother was amazing and looked young enough to be Kumi’s sister, her other 2 younger sisters were also incredible and were always walking around half naked and were obviously really naughty and openly had sex with customers in the club in front of us. The mother Tatumas was also clearly encouraging them and to my surprise, flirted with me whenever she got the chance.The night club was more like a dark underground sex club and had a luxurious VIP lounge room with deep red carpet, white. "Death shall not take me," he muttered. "Death shall never take me."He had watched others taken by Death. He had watched as his sister's glowing face was shrouded by the cloak of Death, his scythe whistling down to slice cleanly through the sinew and blood vessels of her delicate throat. He had watched his wife attempt to run from the spectral figure. Death had just glided towards her, undaunted, and finished his dark work.Then Death had turned to James. Past the black cloak, past the bones.