He just wanted to be with you and Gina." Yeah," Rada's eyes moistened."No Ark guy would ever do that. When I asked him why, he gives me some shit abou... sackcloth and ashes and I thought he'd been too long in the sun. I don't think I'll ever understand it, but it was the coolest thing I've ever heard. Suetonius figured someone who walked that far to be with his partner must have what it takes to be a Black Guard." Stop it, Rasida. I'm going to be a messy crybaby and I never fucking cry."Rada. Their time under the waterfall was playfully sexy with friendly touches, but neither tried to seduce in the bathroom. “Laura left me something to wear; I will model it for a glass of wine.” “I bought these pajamas to go with that nightshirt; we were shopping together and I liked that green color.” “Silk feels wonderful, soft and sexy but demure. Laura put a fragrance spray with it; I hope she meant for me to smell good for you.” Dan leaned in to Artsy’s collarbone and breathed deep, “Perfect,. ”“But he confessed at his trial.”“Yes, and at first, I thought my revenge would be only in torturing him the way he had my daughter. But after a few hours of pain, he told me what had really happened.”“You mean... ?”“Oh, no, he raped and, tortured and murdered my daughter all right. But, he wasn’t alone that night.”“There were others involved?”“Five other men were at that road house. He first took my daughter in a back room and raped her repeatedly. The other men had to have known what was. She set off walking down the road, past the remaining pubs looking all around her in case Ian appeared.She crossed the road and walked over the bridge, hoping that wasn’t the place he chose, thankfully he didn’t appear, so she kept walking, crossed the road at a junction and continued to walk, she was getting nervous now she didn’t think he would have let her walk that far on her own at night, as she walked past the entrance to the wood yard someone jumped in front of her, dressed all in black.