I had answered the doorbell and there she stood wearing her very alluring catholic school uniform (white blouse and too-short plaid skirt) and carryin... an armful of books. She told me that her mom was at work and no one else was at home and she had forgotten her keys.I was twenty-nine and single at the time. I was working as a night manager at the local cable company and had just gotten out of bed. I answered the door with nothing more than a bathrobe on.I let her in and told her to have a. ’ ‘Aye,’ Edana nodded, her tawny red hair fanned out around her on the soft pelts. At eighteen seasons, she had waited long enough to take a partner. Unlike many of the girls in Emain Macha, Aidan had given her the freedom to choose her partner. Ignoring his nakedness Gerrard strode to the door and flung it open. His deep voice echoed throughout the wood and earthen fortress. ‘Barclay!’ The short muscular Scot and lifelong friend of Gerrard came to the door moments later. ‘No need to shout. We take a jet from Sunport Airport to Henderson Executive Airport mid-afternoon on Friday. After checking in at a hotel close by we head for the main casino as their penthouse is still being fixed.We all stop at the same table and get ready to place maximum bets on the same result. When the time comes the four of us place bets of twenty-five thousand dollars on the shooter rolling twelve. The person on the table is new and he doesn’t know me, so he thinks this is an easy win for the house due. Showing a distinct lack of gratitude, he spent the late afternoon beating me with the multi-tail flogger. He secured me face to the the wall by clipping my wrist cuffs to the eye screws in the living room wall and clipping my ankles together. I could barely move with my arms spread wide apart over my head and my ankles clipped to each other. He beat me methodically from my upper shoulders all the way down to my lower calves. I was facing the wall, but he blindfolded me with one of my silk.