“You don’t have to get up, Amanda,” Suzanne said, smiling. “Youdon’t have to look back either.”Amanda was getting...concerned. “Suzy? What’s going on??”“Shush,” Suzanne motioned. She then pulled out a pair of dull greycolored metal hancuffs. She pulled Amanda’s arms behind her back andquickly slapped the cold metal onto Amanda’s pudgy wrists.“The hell?!” Amanda yelled as she tried to squirm her wrists. She looked just like the teenaged girl that answered the door only old enough to be obviously her mother. I found out that the daughter's name was Leslie and that she was studying hard to get into Princeton University the next term. The mom's name was Gloria and she really did look glorious in a tight-fitting number that accentuated her perfectly curved ass cheeks and started my business to instant activation like a trigger I could not control. Of course, the mother saw my reaction to her. My wife was a teacher also. We had been retired, almost exactly one year, when we got the news that she had breast cancer. It was the kind that spreads quickly and by the time we discovered it, her time was about up. We had already bought the coach and had taken one long trip out west. That was the only trip she made in it. She passes on two months later. I sold everything and became a full time RVer, traveling all over and being free as a bird. I lived this way for over three years now. Ayla and Tavish were working hard at their lessons under Amina, and Rayna thought there was something different about Ayla now, but she didn’t elaborate.Once the horses were secured in the stables and settled for the night, Rayna took a good long look at them under the light of a nearby sunstone. “You two need a bath,” she said flatly, her plump lips twisting in what Erik could only call amused distaste. “Which is a good thing, because it just happens to be the hour for it. Come, the others.