Two minutes later my desk telephone rang. I picked it up. Ruth said, "Michael, your daughter Tricia is on line 2." "Ruth, I can't talk to her right no.... It appears that she and Jodie actually encouraged Jeanne to have this affair." "Michael, I'm so sorry. I'll take care of it. I'll tell them you're in a meeting and can't be disturbed." "Thank you, Ruth." I paused for a moment and then I said, "Ruth, I need a break from all of this. For the rest of the day I just want to be an accountant. I have. When he emerged from the bedroom I was sitting on the sofa still wearing his robe, watching the DVD. The look on his face could only be described as horrified and humiliated. He started to stutter something and I looked up at him. It dawned on him that I was playing with my own clit and I could tell that he couldn't decide whether to explain, run and hide or what. I looked at him, expressionless, stood up and approached him. I put the finger with which I'd been playing with my clit to his lips. I gagged and choked, but I must have gotten enough down to satisfy her, because she stopped forcing me and cleaned my face up with a wet cloth. I cracked an eye open and gave her my best death glare. She smiled back. ‘What,’ I groaned, ‘happened to me?’ Maggie sat back in the chair and regarded me with curiosity. ‘Ye truly do not remember,’ she shook her head. ‘This be the way of it.’ Over the next hour she told me of Alex trying to murder me and how Cien had banished him from Fraser land.. I turned away so they couldn’t see me crying. Hell, I don't think I really even knew why I was crying at the time, I just knew that I was both happy and sad. My little Tina had finally grown up. But it wasn’t just that. It was complicated. She had lost her innocence and not to me. She wasn’t a virgin and I couldn’t be the one to love her like that. But I was happy for her too. As I said, complicated.Mark thrust forward several times and Tina’s arms went out to the side, her fists clinched.