It's just that I was annoyed to find that photo on the frontdoor. I really did think that the matter was closed when I'd been canedlast time. As I sai..., if you wanted me to do some chores I would havebeen happy to do them but the picture on the door threw me off balance.You do understand, don't you?" What I don't understand, Joanna," she responded, "is why you thought thematter was closed. Whatever gave you the idea that you had beensufficiently punished for stealing my sister's lingerie?"I. Larry must behappier. Things are better. I hope."Jason," she says and pauses. "Do I call you Jason when you're dressedlike that?" she muses out loud but continues, as usual, without ananswer. "I promised Larry dinner and a movie tonight: his choice and mytreat. So we'll be heading to the steakhouse and then to that movie withthe soldiers," she summarizes.She goes to putting the food she was chopping into storage containers butdoesn't stop her soliloquy."So we'll be back tonight around. Svoystvo. Property. Yours. This is ... znak. Simvol. Sign I belong ... you."He moved his hands to cup her cheeks. "I wish you could understand more. You are so much more than property..."She was shaking her head, her eyes glittering with unshed tears. He leaned forward and kissed those moist eyes, at which she began to weep freely and fell forward against him so he held her protectively.Before Joshua purchased her, Ksenia had been under no illusions as to her probable fate. She had decided to. Pulling herself back to the present, Lizzie sighed and looked around. Her eyes narrowed as she caught sight of Pritkin (which she had called him ever since that first meeting, refusing to use his first name – ever) with Lynn, one of the newer students. In the few seconds her eyes rested on them, Lizzie became increasingly upset. Lynn was a few years younger, tall, slender and pretty. She knew how to work her body to get a guy’s attention, and now she was using all that skill toward Pritkin..