’ Explained Nikolai. ‘So what, you thought that you would come in here and start making changes? That I would just lie down and let you fucking ta...e over my company? No wait, you didn’t expect me to lie down at all. You just put me up on the counter and waited for me to spread my legs for you. Well congratulations you almost succeeded.’ Ivy breathed out roughly as she finished in embarrassment. ‘That was not my plan. I did come here with the some ideas that would make this place more. "Now you're going to be a good baby forNanny Crissy, so she won't have to call up bad babys Mama and Dada onthe telephone, won't you?" It was more a demand or threat than aquestion. I lowered my head and nodded. She looked expectantly at me andjiggled the phone menacingly."Yes, Nanny Crissy," I said swallowing the remnants of my pride, "I'llbe a good... baby."She smiled broadly as I said that, a clear look of triumph on her face.She hung up the phone and gently took my hand. I meekly followed. “I was wondering that too,” Pete replied. “That girl needs to lighten up; let her hair down a bit. Be a bit more open-minded about things. What’s the matter?”Pete had seen me almost choke at his words. He was puzzled, but then I had gone to great lengths to keep the knowledge of his precious daughter’s sexual history away from her innocent father’s ears. Pete still knew nothing about Izzy’s pregnancy scare, the way she had cheated so openly on her boyfriend, her new nickname, or the homemade. I didn’t like the slight smile that came onto Pat’s face. ‘Yes and no, but we really needed your reaction to it, to convince Garfield that we were serious. Don’t worry, he saw the way you reacted and that scared the shit out of the bugger.’ ‘It scared the shit out of me as well, Pat, I’m responsible for that girl’s death. I’m not sure I can live with the memory,’ I replied. ‘Ah, now, don’t you go worrying yourself about that girl. The memory will soon fade. That I can promise you,’ Pat.