As Shannon walked up to her, Christine bit her lower lip and trembled harder. Shannon tied her wrist to one of the posts of the footboard.“You were ...ight,” Shannon whispered to Jake when she was done. “She was focused on me entirely. It was like you didn’t exist anymore. Even now she’s still staring only at me.”“In a minute, when I take over, she’ll focus on me again. She’s infatuated with the idea of submission right now. It’s actually a dangerous place for her. She’ll respond like this to. While I'm on the subject of satisfaction, Vee (being her usual nosey self) had asked Julie how our weekend in Bristol had gone, and my girlfriend had been foolish enough to admit to having felt sore after quite so much sex.Our petite Welsh flatmate therefore felt that she had missed out on some good shagging, and on Tuesday night I found her waiting naked in our bed when I returned from doing my bedtime ablutions.Gustav of course was delighted, and although he got far too excited the first time. I anticipated that someone else would want your mosaic, so I negotiated with the college to fire enough tiles for a second full set and bought them out of your fee. Kate, do you pay any attention at all to what you are paid?”“Uh ... not really. Since January, all the money has been paid to the partnership, right?”“That was your instruction, but you should really keep track of your own income. Tony? Do you?”“Well, sort of. Penny has been explaining my finances to me each month. I didn’t know how. She added a spoon, a small stainless pitcher of real cream and a glass pour jar of sugar, rubbed my head and hurried away. I wonder which one that was?For a town totally isolated by tropical storm flooding, there were sure a lot of people having breakfast. I didn't think that many old men could exist in one place. I didn't think that many old men could eat in silence, either. The quiet was 'unnerving'.The four "J's" were keeping busy pouring coffee and serving peppered, over easy eggs, crisp.