The next morning Suzanne surprised her step-mother by dropping over at her father’s house. The photographer explained that she needed the paddle tha... her father had used on her when she was still in middle-school. ‘I’ll see if I can find it.’ Suzanne watched while her step-mother rummaged through the drawers of the den. Finally she found it at the bottom of a drawer in a cabinet. She passed it over. ‘What do you need it for anyway?’ Suzanne explained about Amy and the photo shoot. Then she. “And who else have you had with you here, Angelica?” his tone had changed. He looked ravenous, and it made Angelica grip the arm of her chair before reminding herself that he could not hurt her here.“Werewolves on both sides. A Valkyrie, a kitsune, and various shifters.” she listed some visitors from within the last year.“Do they ask you for things? Plead for things for one side or the other?” he asked.“Sometimes, but my contract forbids it,” she replied.“Does it forbid you giving energy to a. Of course, we completely ignored the TV as we started making out. You just seemed so… animated. You were a little sad and weepy because we were facing three months apart, but also excited, giddy even. We hadn’t been kissing and touching more than five minutes when I had three buttons on your blouse undone and my hand was in your bra, getting my first feel of your hand-sized tits and rock-hard nipples. You wrapped your hand around the bulge in my pants and asked me to take you up to my room. . . I get in trouble.“It’s the ringing in my ears, Doc. I keep trying to answer it.” That didn’t help one single bit.Instantly, he said, “Mr. Austin, we’d like to keep you for a few days ... observation.” He turned to Wendy, “Mrs. Austin, would you agree to ... oh ... say ... three days?”Wendy swiftly nodded ... any harder and her head would break off.Shit!“She’s not my wife!”“How about five days?” said the doc.Wendy grinned.“Five days it is,” agreed the doc.“How about no days?” I said, as I.