Ned had sent a telegram more than a week ago to let her know he would be back for two days leave, but since then, she had heard nothing. She knew he w...s as excited as she about the baby, so unless his battalion had had last minute orders, then he should have arrived by now. The nagging sense that something was wrong had been in the back of her mind for days. Another pain gripped her in a vice as it consumed her. Hands prised her legs apart and she was vaguely aware of her mother’s presence. It. I knocked again and heard movement inside and then the sound of the deadbolt. The door opened, there was Naomi in a short little bathrobe. Her hair was soaking wet and she she shivered as the outside coastal breeze touched her still wet skin. She obviously had been interrupted in the shower."What are you doing here? If you are looking for Katie, she isn't here... I am sorry for causing trouble last week..."I pushed the door open and forced her inside, locking it behind me. The apartment was. "Checkers, Mistress?" That's right. You'll be red, and I'll be black." Another slap of the paddle. Todd shook. "Go to the hall closet and bring out the checker set."Todd stood up, and almost ran down the hall, to the end, and opened the doors. He looked up to the left, finding the Monopoly game, the boxes of playing cards, the poker chips. Finally, his eyes landed on the box with the checker and chess games. He pulled the box out, and trotted down the hallway. In a few minutes, he had set up. The charcoal suit, the squeeling tyres, the mile long legs, the cat walk wiggle ... the ensuing sexual mayhem. My eyes dive back to her file like a panicking penguin escaping a bear. A really angry polar bear. I should never have drunk these brandies last night. What in heaven's name was I thinking of? I know, I know, how it makes me feel. It makes me feel like this! Unbelievably, excruciatingly, randy."Perhaps you could slip off your suit?" I suggest before I have thought what I'm saying. And.