The loose ends of the cord hung down from the top knot on each side of his balls. He lifted the cord over the top of the black steel ?T? in front of ...im then put his hand under his balls and lifted them onto the ?T.? The steel pipe was bitingly cold, and he winced. With his legs spread and secured, the pipe and the ?T? on top of it was just the right height for his balls to clear. He had to bend his knees only slightly. He took the ends of the cord in each hand, passed it around behind the. ’ She peaked in to see the back of a man rummaging through the refrigerator. Before she could muster a smidgen of fear, he rose to turn back to the stove and smiled at her, ‘Good afternoon, beautiful.’ Dan casually said as he turned his back again and cleaned up the mess from his preparations. She racked her brain to figure out why he would be in her apartment. ‘It’s Wednesday?’ She could barely hear herself. Instead of explaining things to Jesse, she’d resorted to silence. It had been so easy. “Or maybe I am,” he offered quickly.“Really?” She stopped and looked to the ceiling and tapped a fingernail to her chin. “How does France feel about helping the New World Regime?”Valois’ chin dropped He went speechless, completely forgetting his fear. “I refuse to help you. I will not go down as a traitor to my country but a hero,” he said standing up revealing a handgun.Errios laughed. “What do you plan to do with that little human?”Valois’ grin changed into a frown. “That’s right. Go ahead. Stacy had just recently stopped taking her birth-control pills because we were trying to get her pregnant with our second child.Stacy is an architect in the design group, and I am a civil engineer in the construction group, so we didn't have a direct reporting relationship that would conflict with our human resources policies. I was out of the office on job sites much of the time anyway, so we had very little contact in the office.Stacy was twenty-nine years old, five feet and four inches tall.