She gets the ruler slapped into her palm for ink marks on her handsand blouse cuffs. I hurriedly examine my own.. cuffs are clean, butthere's a smudge...on my left hand... I try to rub it off surreptitiously,but it merely draws Mistress's attention to me."Hands out Angel," she says, and I comply, tensing slightly. "Oh look alittle smudge.. and smeared... palm out." Yes Mistress Thorne," I reply, holding out my hand and flinching as sheslaps it with the ruler. "And Angel, one demerit for trying to. I was quite pissed off. But luckily, the bed was not that small. I rolled my eyes. I quickly went to the dining room to eat our dinner. A rule was to be abid by everyone at the table: no talking whilst eating. After we had eaten our meal, Naomi spoke up. “Daddy, could I bring Jasmine out tonight? Please? ” My dad arched an eyebrow before nodding his head. I could see there was a smile tugging his face; I wasn’t so sure why. I just sighed and smiled at Naomi. She smiled back. *** Naomi told me. They were bound and gagged when they woke, which was amazing. All six were in the tavern yard and I was placing the last of six posts in the ground. Two of the six had been with the first sidhe that had come into my Tavern. One at a time I put them against a post and tied them, I also added a cord around the throat. I stood in front of them, “If you struggle the cord around your throat will tighten.”I looked at the six glaring sidhe, “For your trespass upon what is mine I will brand each of. Please."Monday came and all of a sudden I was at Latisha's doorstep and up walks this very tall thin black lady, she was very buxom, had a long face with long black hair. She put out her hand to me and said. "You must be Tommy, I'm Francis. Glad to meet you, I have heard so much about you and couldn't wait to meet you."I was tongue tied but replied. "Hi Francis I have heard so much about you also. You are even more beautiful than Trish described. Nice meeting you."When Larisha answered the.