He looked awfully depressed about something yet as soon as he sensed that I was watching him he looked my way and smiled."What's up dad?" I asked blun...ly, "And don't tell me that there's nothing wrong, you barely ate a thing and you've been sitting there with a face a mile long." Tactful as ever, eh Ronnie?" dad sighed, "If you must know I think you're mother is having an affair."Mum was the last person I could imagine having an affair, but obviously dad had that impression and my father was. I wondered did he still suffer from migraines. No way to ask, though. I smiled in the kind of casual way you do at strangers. "Do I know you, sir?" I asked.My lawyer, who'd insisted on being present as well, frowned at me. "My client has nothing to say," he told Richard pointedly, clearly meaning for me to take the hint. I smiled at the lawyer and nodded understanding. Jerry and the other man, I couldn't even recollect his name now, looked me over uncertainly for a little while and then. He worked and I had to babysit. It was eleven by time we could talk and I had to go to bed. He did call me. "I can't talk, I have to go to bed, you know the rules." "I know baby, I just called to wish you goodnight." "Awh babe." I was love stricken."I'll call you tomorrow morning. Goodnight baby. Sleep well, oh and dream about me." After today I most definitely will, goodnight." I hung up and hurried off to sleep. That day I woke up about 6:30 to a text. "Same spot as yesterday. Seven am.. I had something cruel in mind. I handed her the remote behind her back and set her thumb on the button that delivered a painful shock. I told her to give herself twenty shocks. As usual she would count out loud and thank me or she would start again.“aii… oe…aiii…twooo” she tried but the gag spreading open her mouth was making it really difficult.“again, you forgot to thank me.” I answered after I noticed. It wasn’t that easy.“aii…one, taa u aser….aii…wo, han ou aser….” She began. I could see.