Why would anyone send me this? It was like some sort of weird prank and...“Dammit!” I whirled around. “Stupid box!”I couldn't focus on masturb...ting with it taunting me. I ripped open my desk drawer and found a pair of scissors. I slit the beige packing tape sealing it close. I opened the box, an instruction manual sitting on top of packing peanuts.It looked like electronic instructions for something called the Halo.I pulled it out, sank down into my computer chair, and found the section in. ”Madame Carronade had started the video on a tablet and pushed it across the cheap desk so the two men could watch what had become a horror show for her. The video told it all. Toni, the slave Carl had seen at the poker game, laid out the entire plot and it sounded like Madame Carronade was at the heart of it all. Master Carl and Lord Blackmon listened as she described being approached by Matt during her second stage of training. She indicated that Matt had told her Sea Grove, one of the. " I was the one whose Visa gave you trouble." I remember, now. How do you know Seth?"Noah set the vase on a table near her bed. "I don't, alas. I have no idea who he is or where he is. Rachel -- I have an apology to give and a confession to make. I've been cruel to you even though we're strangers and without you even realizing it. You see ... all the text and voice messages you left for Seth came to my phone." He took his Blackberry from his pocket and manipulated it. "See? Here they are."She. “I phrased that badly,” Susan cut in. “Are we talking about any illegal activities ... minors or coercion to start with?”“Susan!” I said.“It’s a valid question,” Sarah said. “And it’s also typical of the questions she’s going to have to answer if she goes through with this.”“Nothing illegal,” Liz said. “Definitely no minors and no one was coerced.”“OK,” Susan said. “That’s a good start. So we’re talking about consenting acts between adults. Are we talking adultery?”“I ... I don’t think so,” Liz.