She’s not dead. It’s worse than that.’ ‘Why don’t you tell me about it? Start at the beginning. Go ahead, I have all night.’ I finished ...y drink and set the glass aside before picking up the second. Closing my eyes for a minute brought me back almost twenty-five years. CHAPTER 1 Starting at the very beginning I allowed my tale to slowly unfold. ‘I had just graduated from college. Initially, I thought I’d become a doctor, but I learned pretty quickly that I didn’t have the self-discipline to. She is here in town. She’s an artist-in-residence for her old dance instructor. They’re putting on a song and dance revue for high school and college students.”“She doesn’t live in New York anymore?” he asked.“Yes, she still lives in New York. She’s been commuting back and forth and staying with me for a few weeks while she worked on the production. She’ll be going back soon. She has asked about you, and I think she wanted to call you, but she has been so busy, she’s been putting in. What kind of jerk watches stuff like this, she asked herself for the millionth time!At last the whole thing was over! The final scenes of the doomed heroine being tormented on a wild storm-tossed beach had been filmed. Why they had needed to come al this way when there were plenty of wild storm-tossed beaches in England, Veronica could not work out. Of course, some of the scenes had been filmed inland on the way to the sacrificial climax and the local scenery was a little more arid and rugged. The next day I went into town and after walking past several times plucked up the courage to enter the shop, at the front was the usual display of nice silk matching undies and as I ventured further back found a section with sex toys and bondage clothing, “Can I Help ?” a voice came from behind me, I turned around and there was a shop girl who looked too young to be working in a place like this, err err I’m looking for some underwear, “Is it for your wife or partner ?” err err No it’s for me,.