She was ecstatic that I had gotten married, but was a bit miffed that she could not have attended. We promised her that we would have a small family c...remony in church to "legitimatize" our marriage. Wanda was a Comp Lit major like I was, but she went to Howard. At first, she had been ambivalent about Tom, but after she saw us playing our little "quote games" she admitted she was jealous. "I wish I could do that with Neil, but we usually just wind up talking about 'the Hawks'," she lamented.. Gasping in precious air, fear swept through her as she realized her hands were bound tightly by the leather straps.Opening her eyes, she felt her Master gently kiss her lips.Brenda knew what was coming and she trembled all over. Her Master gently lifted her from the bed and carried her to the large wall across from the bed. The wall was bare except for a few large iron hooks and loops bolted to the wall.Reaching the wall, He let her down and allowed her to regain her balance. As Brenda stood. Rachel greeted him in Japanese and they conversed briefly. Rachel was hesitant at first – I knew that outside of a few expressions she'd exchange with her mother, she hadn't practiced her Japanese in a decade – but she clearly kept up her end."You don't speak Japanese," the ambassador's wife said (not asked). She was wearing something (certainly not a kimono) in heavy, floral silk."No. I can order sushi, but that's it." My husband has asked who your wife is. She told him and says he knew her. Eileen had only been the one that had brought it all to a head. It could have just as easily been Kate, or even Jane. It had been about all of them, and more. I wondered if Bill had felt as trapped by all that had happened as I had.On Tuesday, Bill was absent from school. Tuesday night, Eileen called me from Bill's house. She told me that she had just heard about what happened that day in school. She wanted me to know that she hadn't spoken to Bill before he attacked me."Larry, I hope you.