” “All right, Stephanie, get in position.” I relished the prospect of seeing the welts bloom on the girl’s shapely bottom. With a moan, Stepha...ie got up on her tiptoes. At a word from me, she spread herself farther, provoking a smile from Alice. I began my taps, some a bit sharp. Then I drew back my arm. The cane whistled as it flew to the beautiful bum. THWACK! “Yaaahhhh!” Stephanie’s entire body jerked up. She tossed her head from side to side and stamped her feet. “Ohhhh, ohhhh. One, sir,”. After his run Michael moved through his day, always conscious of either Tera, or Valerie, usually of both of them. Lunch passed in a similar manner as breakfast had. Easy discussions, quiet laughter, the three of them getting more and more comfortable with the other. ‘My uncle had a new car dropped off for me,’ Valerie said as lunch was concluding. Reaching into her purse she grabbed a set of keys and laid them in front of Tera. ‘You can have these back, it’s parked over in the employee lot,. "All of it," the man snapped. "It doesn't do us any good if we can't thoroughly search you." Irina plucked out her earrings and tossed them onto the floor into the pile, followed by her necklace and ring -- her wedding ring, which she had continued to wear after her husband's death. She felt a tear starting to well up as she realized she was probably never going to wear it again.Since there was no more postponing of the inevitable, she unfastened her bra and tossed it on the floor. While. You walked out. You left me to die with a broken heart. Well, I survived you. You hear me? I survived."Niko surprised her by taking a step back, turning his face away from her."I'm sorry, Camille. If I could change it all, I would. You're all I ever wanted... When I woke up in that hospital and they told me I had to stay away..."He turned to look at her again, his dark eyes nearly tearing a hole in her soul. The pain he revealed to her was real and more forlorn than anything he had shown her so.