" Good." Lucy seemed satisfied. "So here are the rules. When youenter the room, if one of us is here, you curtsey to us. The sameapplies if you're in ...he room and one of us enters." She began tocount off the rules on her left hand. "Secondly, you don't eat untilone of us two gives you permission. Thirdly, when not working in thehotel, you address both of us as Ma'am. Fourth, if one of us tellsyou to do something, you do it. Understand?" Yes, yes," moaned Dean in between tears. . "The entire table laughed when Eddie, in a very good imitation of Ed, interrupted Peter's prepared speech and said, "Well I'll be, I think we're gonna have a salad with 'eye-talian' dressing on it."Shaking his head, Ed said, "Everyone knows that a salad is supposed to be prepared by cutting a head of lettuce into quarters and drowning it in Thousand Island Dressing." And we want the good stuff, too. We'll want the kind that comes in a bottle. We won't settle for any of that cheap homemade stuff. “Sit down, Rambo. Hear me out.” “What the fuck was that? This is what you’re doing to punish me, isn’t it?” “That, dear, was the deal. And it’s not about punishing you. Although you did bring this on yourself. He agreed to let me work off the loan. He will pay for rehab, long as you need. Most importantly no one needs to go to jail.” “Jail? What the fuck does that mean?” “I think you know. In addition to the money you borrowed, you have been skimming, haven’t you? I saw the evidence myself.”I. . I'd love to but I really can't." Adra knew there was more to it, but didn't want to press him. After all, she had only just met the guy. "All right, but do you mind if we sit next to you today?" She was smiling, and didn't seem like the type to take no for an answer. Giving up any hopes of a resistance, Azrael Garbyn softly nodded his head.~-----"He seems nice, you were right. It sucks that people have to pick on him like that." Adra seemed bothered, but happy. "Yeah, it's really irritating.