Her hand jumped back as if she had laid it on burning embers. “I should call…” I started. “I already called 911. They are coming. I just wan...ed you to be with me. That’s why I called you. Sorry for…” Jill said. “Let me help you sit down.” “At first it didn’t hurt much. I felt just an unpleasant numbness. I was even able to put weight on it but after a couple of minutes…” Supporting her back, I helped her sit down. She started to moan as I was doing that. Then I kneeled beside her and. ”He had a mask too, with some kind of ridiculous beak on it. I guessed it was Venetian-style. Still, he wore it well.“We’re here,” he said a short while later, and we were. The car eased through a huge pair of gates. In the distance, a palatial house loomed. A circus of supercars had been abandoned on the sweeping drive and were being whisked away by identical-looking valets.“Leave your purse here,” Neil murmured. “No phones.”I frowned. “What? Why not?”“No cameras,” he said, as though it was. The thought of her hands so close now excites me as a small shiver ripples through my body. I sigh to cover it, hoping that she mistakes it for just further relaxation, but in reality my mind has gone from drifting to focusing very pointedly on what her hands are doing. Nothing seems to really have changed though as her hands continue to work up and down my thighs, working my muscles, kneading them like dough from the inside to the outside with each pass. But wait, did her hands just get a. "I kissed her again."I'd say, go for it."I paused."Although I'm not sure I want to be there if it happens. Not sure Matt would want me to be there, either. I'd like you to tell me all about it, though. Can you do that?" Yes, I think I can."There matters stood until the following summer. Matt came to stay for a couple of weeks not long after we'd sent Julie off to begin her freshman year. We spent most of our time out at the pool in the afternoons, going through gallons of iced tea and more.