He brought the man in the suit a pair of leather writ restraints with a chain attached and retreated from the room after picking up Anna's clothes. He...was not subtle about catching a glimpse of her naked body. The man in the suit spoke again, "Hold out your hands." Anna complied and he fastened the restraints around her wrists. Anna looked up as she heard a chain lowering from the darkness above. The man hooked the chain in his hand to the chain from the ceiling and it began to retract pulling. .. that was the other look on her face that I hadn't been able to quite identify until now. It was hope ... and now the way that her eyes continued to stare at me I could feel regret and longing, both in near equal quantities. I needed to look away for a moment myself, to blink and get my own thoughts under control. She'd been gone from my life for about a decade now but I'd never forgotten her. For me, she had always been the one that had somehow gotten away from me. All of the old feelings. Pete.’ I laughed and said I don’t think that at all and anyway, seeing her almost every morning it was like I knew her. ‘Shall I make a confession, since we feel so comfortable with each other. Pete?’ ‘Be my guest’ I invited. ‘Well, knowing your morning habit by now I ensure I am in the garden at 8am!’ ‘My heart was pounding – and why I could not say, I expect it came as rather a surprise coming from an older woman, it was hard to tell how old because Cecelia looked so good, she had a lovely. Making a circle in the lot, he stopped with the Escalade facing back toward the road.They sat for a moment watching the last play of light in the trees, then, "Before my husband starts," Diana said from behind them as she took off her belt and leaned forward, putting her hand on the back of Bill's seat, "I need to tell you a few things, that knowing him, he will gloss over."For a full twenty minutes, Diana talked in the quietness of the approaching darkness, the muted idling of the big engine a.