Maybe I am choosing not to remember his explanation but he relented to my repeated begging so it is my fault that I am in this situation… It started...like many of our other playdates...A leather corset is laced around my body, leaving my breasts exposed, and laced very tight- breaths are shallow. My collar is locked in place like usual but this time it has a long metal bar with cuffs attached to the far end, hooked to the back ring. Both my arms are pulled back and locked into the cuffs forcing. “Come on.” She grabbed my hand. “Let’s get our coats and go before anyone tries to stop us.”“Who’d try—?”“Mom. That’s who.”Back at my place, I made us both a cup of hot chocolate and we settled in our usual position on the sofa. They were showing the original Miracle on 34th Street on one of the movie channels so we decided to watch it. Clarissa leaned into me as she sipped her drink, her legs tucked up to the side. She seemed much more relaxed now than she had been earlier. Because it was a. She had a fixed, determined expression that I didn’t understand. “I talk to myself a lot,” I said. It was the go-to answer when my girls noticed me talking to Rho.Abigail shook her head. “No, you were talking to someone. You reacted as if they were there, both in your exchange and your actions.” Then she looked at me. “Are you communicating with Hunters?”“Hunters?” I asked. “What are Hunters?”“Don’t be stupid. You know what hunters are, and you know they hunt more than game.”I could tell that. “Hello.”“Sami its Nicole I wouldn’t be bothering you at all if it wasn’t just so urgent that it couldn’t wait. There’s been an accident and” “Wait what? Is it Vici?“Yes its Victoria she had a fall and has broken her arm and it couldn’t have happened at a worse time. I have a social event to organize for the City Founders Foundation and that husband of mine has gone off on a golfing weekend. Could you pick her up at her Student accommodation building and take her home with you, just till she can.