This has been very hard for me. But I want you to know that I value having known you for over thirty years. I want to continue knowing you. But Rachel...was worried that something more intimate was going to transpire. But I don’t think so. And I don’t think you want it to.”Winnie was dabbing her eyes with her napkin.“Oh, dear. That wasn’t my intention, either,” she said. “First of all, thank you for still being so sweet. I didn’t have aspirations ... hopes ... whatever. Whatever we had was over. Her eyes swam with tears. She could hear her blood pumping. Flashes of heat interchanged with puddles of frost, and a long stream of sweat moved from her temples into her eyes which stung and burned. The television chattered in the adjacent room. With all of the strength left in her emaciated body, she gave breaking free one last chance. She pulled her hands apart, but to no avail. The packing tape remained as strong as manacles. She poked her tongue at the tape to loosen the glue. The tape. He pushed hard with the wood and watched as her face grimaced. He had located her delicate hidden nub of a clitoris with the firm end of the stick and was now measuredly abusing the small bundle of nerves.“You want the tape off your mouth sweetheart?” he asked in a loving sing song voice, “And your dirty old cunt soiled panties pulled from your mouth?” he added with a grin.She nodded her head in the affirmative, hoping he would do just that and stop painfully m*****ing her most sensitive. Dating and deceptionAll I could think of with Tom was I needed to tell him I was Peg Chester and I needed his help. I could have explained the false identity well enough to make him see. But he’d think I was going around behind his back and interfering in his business. Which I was. After all, he was the detective that investigated Georgia’s death and concurred with the diagnosis of the coroner. But I don’t think he was satisfied with it himself. He’d checked in with Peg twice and if it were a.