"No, we've got to meet Matt, and his new date" Adam said "She knows nothing about this lifestyle, so you will be my 'girlfriend' and no mention of any...hing. Act innocent, that's why you're dressed normal, and if you let anything slip you will be spending a long time at the mercy of John" which was enough to ensure I would behave. We left the bar, and once outside on the street we walked to a quieter restaurant down the road. As we passed the glass front I spotted Matt sat at a booth with his. “But IF I did ... I suspect it wouldn’t be anywhere near as painful.”“Please don’t cut us off ever again,” Alyssa begged him, hugging him tight. “It was so much worse than the last time.”“I won’t,” he agreed, leaning down to kiss the top of her head. “It was awful seeing you suffering like that. I dread to think what it would’ve been like if Helene wasn’t around to help.”The blonde shivered in his arms. “I’d rather not even think about it.”“Alright, beautiful ... we’ll talk about something. He tells me he hears the humans make these sounds when they care for him at the place where he is taken, the hos-pit-tall, but he does not understand the sense.I think Kitik does not care to know the sense. I wish it were not so, but I know that it is. Kitik stays with me long as I speak with Maggie and the one she brings with her, but in time he wearies and goes to himself. If he is gone away long I go to him and tell him that I will be with him and not the humans. Sometimes he goes back to be. “He bent down and picked it up from the floor and said, here it is, you must have dropped it,” Jen said excitedly.Jen told me that he handed her the phone and told her that she must have dropped it again.“He said, you know what that means don’t you?” Jen shouted, “I said, yes it means that I have been naughty and I get another beating!”Jen told me that Jason smiled and asked, “How many did your delightful cheeks get yesterday?”“I told him they got twenty each and he said, so now it’s thirty on.