. it's just that yesterday is still very raw. I'm not saying that you were wrong to do it, just that I can still feel the humiliation and the fear, an... the thought of going through it again scares me very badly." I know." I moved her hair off her face, and kissed the tip of her nose. "What I did yesterday I did for a reason, and I think we need to talk about all of it. I want to spend today going over all of that, and mending any part of this relationship that might be broken. I think there are. " I began, but he Blended into the background. Near the far end of the Garden there was a faint rustle.I sighed and took another sip.Close to the entrance of the Garden there was a large crash and some very pretty bushes were crushed. The invisible commotion rolled away from the entrance towards some just budding Dawn flowers."Stop that!" I bellowed.Setting down my goblet, I retrieved my Fairie light staff from where it rested and walked slowly and officiously towards the flattened. Now she was in trouble!Jane tried to strike at him with her left arm and legs but the iron bars provided David good defence. She gave up trying to free herself from his clutch. David quickly located her handcuffs in her belt and cuffed her right wrist and pulled her hand above her head. He pulled the handcuff through the cross junction of the vertical and horizontal bars and held her wrists tightly. He quickly grabbed her left wrists after releasing her neck and with all his strength, he pulled. “You’ve got a visitor. In the library,” she said through the closed door.“So early? Who?”“Who d’you think?”“Helen?” My spirits surged.“Yes, who else? I’m off out to work now. I’m late. I got her a coffee.”Another knock four minutes later. Was it Helen herself? Get it over with. “Come in!” I shouted, still in bed, my voice dripping with more resignation.Kim, our unrepentant romantic sidled in. “David? You’re not up. Oh, yes of course, you’re not going into work today are you?”“No.”“Anyway, Helen.