Just thinking of the big man touching it made her breathless."How do we play then?" she asked."We each get a soldier," Alice told them, making it up a... she went along but clear as to where the game would lead. She held one up and stroked it, grinning as she noticed how David's breath had quickened as he watched her stroke the wood to feel how smooth the carpenter had made it.Were it not for the figure painted on it, it would have looked like a four-inch long cylinder of smooth maple just over. Isabel did not notice but Moira was upset. "Now that wasn't all that bad, was it, Mo.?" Isabel asked her friendsolicitously, as Moira, frowning, shifted into reverse to back out of the parkinglot. "Not too hard for you, no, Isabel Metcalfe. I was embarrassedstiff; this is only my first time with chains, you know; here, you've had loadsof practice and I'm just starting out." "Starting out, aye," Isabel agreed, patting her friend on the shoulder. "You'llbe just fine, you wait and see. Imagine. Since before I was born, I have been able to feel my parents around me. I felt their love, the longing for me to arrive, but also a fear from my father that was distant, but there none the less. I didn’t understand it, I didn’t understand anything that early in life, but I do remember it. You see among other things, I was gifted with an eidetic memory unlike any other (except for the other men in my family.) My father was afraid of that, and had hoped it would skip me. My father’s side of the. Not very well I might add, they were both fidgeting, and people were starting to take interest in what we were doing. Robert, calm as ever, sat in my seat and lifted my skirt over my back so my arse was in full view. He gently rubbed his big hands over the marks. “You must have really wanted to come on this trip Sweetie.” He said looking at the patterns of diamonds the welts made. “Yes, I did.” I answered. He held up the phone (camera) and started taking pictures. He handed the phone to Nick.