I had the floor covered with thick Persian carpets and rugs, and the two alcoves converted into nominal photographic laboratories, but in a way that m...de them suitable for lavatories and dressing-rooms. When completed, the 'Snuggery' (as I christened it) was in appearance a distinctly pretty and comfortable room, while in reality it was nothing more or less than a disguised torture chamber!And now came the difficult part of my scheme.How to entrap Alice? Unfortunately she was not residing in. A long drive took place and on the way it got dark. Later we reached his shabby neighbourhood again and I waited outside a house. But it wasn’t his. He went up and I waited thinking about things. A few minutes passed and I heard chatter of three different men and my driver coming down the stairs. They eventually came down and I got my first view of three guys, laughing like my naughty classmates. All three looked young. One guy was tall, dark, bulky and looked around 30. One guy looked around. My ex, I'll call him Gerard, was driving with me next to him. Back on the main road, time dragged on and so we started chatting and caught up, we even went over why I had dumped him and he seemed quite willing to accept that he had been an asshole then. After a while we were laughing and mucking about like things had never changed. The three in the back had dozed off, the two girls leaning in on Ramon in the middle, he with his arms round them. Gerard was talking animatedly and when he paused. " "Never! You can't defeat me! I am far stronger than you!" Firing another blast Alan was barely able to block it, sending his own blast it struck the wolf's shield near its head. The wolf was screaming as the blast started to eat away at his shield, "NO! NO! I can't be defeated!" Unable to block further, the blast hit full force exploding the wolf's head; Alan tried to move back, but was unable to avoid being bathed in the brains and blood. The dark council appeared a moment later, as did the.