He sat on the bed beside her, and said, “Oh, my pet, you don’t need to put all this stuff on. I am not your husband, I don’t need you helpless ...o make love to you.”The stranger then proceeded to unlock the cuffs with the key he found on the night stand. Then he undid the straps and took out the ball gag.“And now, finally, the blindfold,” he told her.Beth stopped him, taking his hands in hers. “Please don’t.”“Oh, you don’t want to see me, to know who I am?”“Not just yet. The mystery and. “Why?”I didn’t have an answer. I was pretty sure it was Moreno, and I was pretty sure he was shooting at me. My bending down to pick up the fork had probably saved my life and cost Jackie hers.Jackie’s body was on the way to the morgue in the coroner’s van. Even though cause of death was obvious, deaths resulting from the commission of a crime require a post mortem.Spencer Garrett sat at a table with Cheyenne and me trying to glean any information at all that might be helpful. His deputies were. ?Taste yourself,? she said. I did, and she began to calmly remove her instruments of torment from my body. First, she cut the cords holding my ankles to my testicles, and then secured each ankle back to its floor ring. I was very relieved to have the weight of my body off my wrists, which had bled from being cut into by the plastic cuffs. She had said I would bleed a bit, but I had thought it would be in other places. The soles of my feet were very sensitive from the Sjambok. I figured out who the staff was and they were cleaning up the breakfast. There were two girsl and a guy that didn’t seem like staff. They were young and really fit. Then I remembered them form the show the night before. They were performers, The girls were acrobats and the guy was one of the trampoline dudes. One of the girls offered us mimosas. We chatted in the kitchen and slowly migrated to the living area. The staff brought out some strawberries as we started taking spots on the couch..