"Don't go changing the subject," Teri chided with feigned outrage, a wide grin splayed across her silken red lips—she was feeling no pain whatsoever..."I..." You are too beautiful a girl..." she went on, turning back to Katie, numbly faltering over her own words."A very, very beautiful girl," I cut in, waggling an eyebrow as I spoke, feeling for my little girl as she shifted uneasily on the tines of her mother's gaze."Too beautiful to be sitting home alone on..." Mom, I'm..."Inwardly I cringed,. Then Itold her the truth about myself."Margaret, I did enjoy myself. I can not help it. I really enjoyedbeing a girl that weekend. I looked and felt so special, so beautiful. I was in heaven. I do not know why I feel that way, but I do. Pleasedo not tell anyone. I would be mortified." I would never betray your confidence, Henry. But I must ask, if youenjoyed it so much; why did you stop? You could dress in private and noone would find out." It is not what men do!" I replied. "I would. But what kind of emotion? His voice was low and condescending. “If I continued to let you run on, I’d have to call off all my appointments for the day.” She hissed. “Before I submit my formal complaint to the head partner, tell me what this was really about.” He grinned down into her enraged, beautiful face. “I am showing you how much power I have over you. How does it feel?” She was speechless, her face a glazed incredulousness. Smiling and almost taunting her, he said, “You looked angry. That works both ways, though, because things here are not only strange and different to us, but they are dangerous and frightening as well. If anyone else had found us besides you, I don't think we'd have made it two days here. It was an unbelievable stroke of providence that you came up the road when you did. I cannot believe how naïve we were, thinking that our advanced knowledge and equipment would keep us out of harms way in an environment as hostile as this."I had not thought of things.