Nikolai looked away from Cole at Ivy when she didn’t immediately start screaming at him for being the biggest prick she has ever met. As Nikolai loo...ed into Ivy’s eyes he watched as if in slow motion as Ivy’s gold flecked brown eyes were slowly taken over by the gold, leaving her eyes an eerie catlike yellow. Just as he was about to try and explain things to Ivy he heard Cole swear under his breath and knew things were about to get ugly. ‘Let me see if I’ve got this straight…’ Started Ivy with. I started up the tape player and proceeded to listen to it in silence. It was pretty much like Jerry had outlined. What was apparent was that Becky was being blackmailed. I am not sure why she was letting him do this to her. It sounded like there should be a simple explanation, for what he saw. There had to be more to it."Joe, it seems to me that you got yourself a snake in your hen house, too. I've always held that a man should stomp his own snakes, but in this day and age, it's a mite harder. It was a delicacy that, being slave to his mistress, only he waschosen to appreciate. The fact that his mistress, when given to bouts ofsexual need or hunger could indulge in the semen herself, was irrelevant.At least, it had to be if he was going to have any chance of retaininghis sanity. He had nothing else in his life now. So few things he couldretain control or pleasure over. He had the memories of his former life,his futon, and his desire for his mistress' decadent jism. Beforeswallowing. Slowly all of the guests wander back up to the lodge, leaving Jeff and I on the beach together. Without really thinking about it, we end up sitting together. I feel his arms around me and it feels right. ‘Jasmine, please, let’s go to my room. I need to love you. Please, let me hold you and love you. Let me show you what it is just to be held and cherished.’ Without letting myself think about it I get up and let him lead me to his room. When we get there I remember the fire and realize that it.