As the discussion turned to the six of them wondering what the new residents would be like Stella informed the group that she had heard from one of th... many contractors who had been working at the property that the new owner was in the construction business but that was all she had found out. “Well we shall all get to see soon” commented Sofie, tapping the same embossed invitation, all the residents had received a couple of months earlier, sitting on the table to a garden party at number 9 that. "This is...interesting," she admitted with a faint blush.We sat there for a few minutes, finishing up our cigarettes and talking.I told her about how I'd found the shop with the strange old woman who'dsold me the pendant for a ridiculously small amount. Now that I thoughtabout it, it was almost as though that old woman had wanted me to havethe pendant from the start and only asked for money because it wasexpected.After we left the table Tara and I found ourselves being drawn togetheragain. . .. well?In fact, up until the woman's escort turned around to assist the blond with her chair, I was thinking that the whole situation was somewhat humorous.But then, as her escort ... host, or whatever capacity he was acting in the evening (most likely I suspected, lecher) did eventually turn his face towards me, I recognised that I was looking at the bastard who'd been responsible for the death of my wife.Okay, so now we have to digress even further, and get the part over that I really do not. From now on I am to call her Mistress or Milady. If we are in public, I may address her as Miss or Dear. She also said that she wanted to do something to me that would be a blatant reminder that I was her gift. She also said it was time to ‘call a spade – a spade’ and that I am to be her ‘slave’. She said that as a slave, I am to have no rights to my body. She wanted to do something so that I wouldn’t look like her husband of thirty years. We left the tea shop and went to a body piercing.