.. Uncle Robert, I'm really sorry I hit you! Please, I ... I'm sorry!'I stood up, and Selene's eyes went round and large. Her ice-blue eyes were still...frightened. I stepped up to the girl, my niece, and wrapped her in my arms, kissing the top of her head, smoothing her hair down her back.'It's okay, honey, ' I told her. 'It's okay, really.''No-one's going to hurt you, Selene, ' I told her gently. 'You took me by surprise, that's all. I think my pride hurts worse than your fist!'Then holding her. Damnit! Then why do I still want him! Cari was suddenly aware of old desires stirring within her. Chance was still a very desirable man. Did he still feel the way he once did, or had he completely buried their past?"I don't know about you, but I thought I was coming out here to spend a quiet weekend with my man," Tanya said, interrupting Cari's disturbed thoughts. "I didn't think we'd be left to fend for ourselves."She turned to the young woman, struck by her beauty again. Her brother's taste. The Christmas story of Santa Clause Is Coming to Town was his genesis,but it also continued through Rudolph's stories and his others told byRankin Bass. Santa had corresponded with Virginia, the girl who'd askedif Santa was real.The resulting response in the newspaper had given the sad girl new hopethat she passed on to her children, one of who had become the lawyer whodefended Santa in the court case that became The Miracle On 34rthStreet.Now Santa kept in touch with his many children's. Within its walls, she knew exactly what was expected of her. She had even begun to enjoy, really enjoy, the sexual aspects of her confinement. Oral, anal, vaginal, it didn't matter to her, she simply craved what she thought of as "the touch."David reached the top of the stairs and swung open the basement door, looking over his shoulder at the slender, nude girl who was timidly climbing the steps behind him. He stepped into the kitchen and smiled at Danielle who was holding Sharon."You might.