.." I'm going to try to keep Eddie out of this ... I have some friends here who can do 'scary' pretty well themselves — but I think we're going to s...art out with 'nice'."Three sets of smug grins and raised eyebrows greeted Tatiana Turov as she walked into her kitchen shortly after 1:30 that afternoon."Look what the north wind blew through our door," Vashti said as he sipped his lemonade."I cannot tell, Vashti, does she look like a well-loved woman?" Svetlana inquired, snickering as she picked. There was some discussion about Nikky’s current ‘status’ and after listening to Nikky both of my girls decided she had zilch. Graduating three or four years early from college, while impressive, just wouldn’t cut it in the trenches in the business world, particularly as time passed and she got older.Cricket laughed, “I know what you need! Wait here. She disappeared and came back a few minutes later with Dev and Scarlett, both wondering what was happening. Cricket gave a sixty-second. "Feel betterfor that?"I nodded."You've been on the edge of tears a few times lately when talking aboutyour mother darling, both I and Rebecca noticed it, and I'm pretty surethat is the first real cry you've had about loosing her since ithappened?"I nodded. My father hated displays of emotion."I thought so," she said, reverting to type adding, "What you need nowis a good cup of tea dear, so and wash your face and clean your ears,and after you've calmed down I'll think about I heading home. By the time you get downstairs we'll have worked up the new set of rules you have to live by from now on. If we can find it we still have a copy of the rules by which my other slaves live."I thought I was prepared for this. I've already been forced to look at some of the nasty pictures on Casey's computer. But they seemed even more disgusting when I was made to watch them with Kenzie. We both stared in shock at picture after picture, each more disgusting and disturbing than the last.The images.