" Thank you, Mistress." Sandy felt her eyes welling up with joy at her Mistress's words."There will be plenty of time tonight to explore your submissi...eness further, but first, let's have a quick talk. Please, rise. Go to the chair in front of the desk and sit down."Sandy did her best to comply with her Mistress's wishes while moving in as graceful and sexy a manner as she knew how. She had been afraid that her Mistress didn't want her, and she was determined to make such a lasting impression. She flew over the maze, now able to sense better where Marlena was hiding within it. As she soared over the maze, she saw little pieces of Marlena walled up inside her. Memories of happy times, fears confined in tight boxes, favorite things sitting in places of prominence — everything that made her who she was, all carefully hidden away in the maze.Marlena was lying in the center of the maze, her astral body nude and curled into a fetal position. She was repeating the words, no and stop in a. Gus booked into the safest place he could imagine. A boarding house just opposite police HQ and parked the gray car in the rear parking lot as soon as he’d booked in. The woman who ran the joint was nothing to look at and had a big mouth, stupidly telling Gus her husband was away at work and guests who were staying were out doing their business and other guests coming in would not begin arriving until after 3:00. She then invited Gus out the back to have coffee. So he used that opportunity. There was a dull smack as his fist slammed into lean muscle.From the looks of the place around me and the absence of noise and human occupation I surmised I was outside of town. The glow on the horizon said it was almost dawn or almost night. I wasn't sure of anything, except that it was time to break up the party and go find Elizabeth."Where's your niece, you old bastard?" I spat through my bleeding lips."She's at work, back in town. Not that it's going to make a bit of difference to you..