I had an idea to bring her out of Cosmo."Do you think these marks are permanent?"I asked, rubbing the mark on my tit. Brit looked up as if she had bee... caught cheating. But she got over the shock of having her presence acknowledged and, to her credit, recovered nicely."What marks?" These."With that I stepped over till I was about a foot away from her and showed her the small red mark."Oh those she said."Her breathing was a bit deeper than normal. I am so bad, I was enjoying this. I had to see. "I'm not sure, my dear. Perhaps you've been keeping tabs on her as part of some nefarious plan of yours. Now go sit down and quit trying to give your old man a stroke."Her hands slid across my shoulders and down my arms."Do ... you ... know ... anything ... about ... her ... disappearance?" she asked, punctuating each word with a caress."My dear, I'm dangerously close to whipping you." Fully naked and hanging from a hook, Daddy?"Yes, I thought to myself, but only after I broke a lot of societal. Dr. Meiersdottir—I beg your leave to call her as I do when we are alone, for I think of her as a friend—Amanda has made me understand that this was error, that by my failure I have shown you disrespect. I offer my excuse that I did not intend it that way, that I believed you, as my superiors in intellect and attainment, would naturally have seen this even as I did."Careful, Carlos, don't lay it on too thick, she thought."But she has made me aware that my point of view may not be the same as. Shoes, of course! White espadrilles, with a stacked heel, but not crazyhigh because I don't like that kind.Then last fall, you got me a raspberry crochet top. The fit was great! (Doyou know me well, or what?) I wanted to wear a camisole, but you convincedme it was cute to see the white of my bra peeking out through those littlecrochet gaps.I got a black leather skirt with that, but what a skirt! So SHORT! I wastoo embarrassed to wear it outside, but you had me turn around and look atmy butt in.