She was knelt upon it, still dressed as she had been. A Pillow had been placed over the iron footboard which her upper body was rested on, but her arm... were tied out like a cross across the wooden bar which topped it. The ties were made from strips of the silk curtains which were shredded about her. Her mouth had been stuffed with yet more silk and a gag of the same tied around her head to stop her spitting it out. The room was in absolute darkness, the shadows were shifting as the breeze blew. “Grandpa sounds like a total bastard,” Blair said and asked why she let him make her do it.“I didn’t let him. I DARED him. I didn’t think he would really make me spend a year that way when he made the threat that if I didn’t learn to obey and appreciate what I was given that was exactly what he would do,” my Aunt admitted with a wistful smile on her face like she didn’t regret her decision as she thought back on it.“Why the fuck would you dare him to make you eat off the floor?” Blair couldn’t. ’ ‘Your honor, the prosecution calls Debbie Williams.’ ‘I object judge. The prosecution cannot call a member of the jury to testify.’ Sandy screamed, ‘Your honor, the defense attorney is leaving me, no one to call to testify against my mother.’ Fred said, ‘Your honor, I object. The prosecution has no right to refer to the defendant as anything but the defendant or by her proper name.’ ‘Dad, stop it.’ ‘Your honor, I object.’ ‘Mister Defense Attorney, you can stop objecting, motion is granted.. And I know even if I had there was no way you could’ve heard it. These buildings are pretty well insulated.”“The night before when you had your episode with your heart -- I sensed your discomfort then, too. At the picnic, we sat and talked and over-ate ... I began to sense you ... vaguely at first and then stronger. I knew then I was falling for you. I had just ended a relationship and I wasn’t ready for a new one. I was reading you so strongly ... when you asked me to go to the fireworks I.