" shelaughed again as I went wide eyed at this admition. "Yep. I masturbateabout four times a week, and I bet you do too. But I wouldn't admit itto an...one else but you. Do you masturbate?" Yes," I answered, still a little shell-shocked."Thought so. Do you love me?" Yes," I replied and we kissed. Julia put her lips to my ears andwhispered: "I want you to break my hymen."I looked at her. "Now?" I asked. She nodded, and we kissed again. Thenshe stood up and began to take her jeans off. I undid my. When she wanted to play on the bench, she would take off her clothes, buckle on the ankle cuffs, put on the blindfold, shove her hands through the holes in the head board, and wait for Jake to come home from work. The way the padding in the wrist holes was slanted made it easy to push through but impossible to pull back out. The weight of the upper plank and the lack of leverage from lying flat on her back with her arms extended above her head made it difficult, but not impossible, to lift the. He was the most handsome, most polite, sexiest man she had ever met in her life.“We can be friends, Juli, but what would your parents say?”“My parents are dead and I live with my Gramps. He would let you be my friend if he knew you wouldn’t hurt me.”“I’d never hurt you. I’ll meet your Gramps if you’ll let me. I already want to be your friend.”“Come to Highland Drugs, my Gramps is Oliver Jones.”“I know where that is. When did you say you got your scooter? It looks new.“I got it three years ago,. His name was Carus, and if I deem it necessary, I may restore him to the world, and you may hear from his lips that I have a prior claim to the artifact." McAllister paused. "Though, it may not be needful for me to remove the artifact, if I can control it."The other nodded. "The poets say Carus came at Raphael's behest, though Raphael was a figure in no religion of ours. Raphael asked us to keep this object safe. He allowed us to make use of it so long as it did not conflict with his.