He had a naked girl bent over Lord Kaelon’s marble-top desk. The serving girl had golden pigtails which streamed down both sides of her back. The gl...diator had bound the girl’s wrists behind her back with a length of torn drapery. Judging from the golden braids and pale skin, the serving girl hailed from the northern kingdom of Tercania. The Tercanians were a dutiful, submissive people, often shipped from the outlying provinces to Prythian markets to serve as household staff to the Imperium. I would have liked to stay like this for much longer, but I had been in this position for a while now and my body was tiring. Mike knew this and lowered my arms but kept my wrists tied. He helped me to the bed and then attached the stockings to one of the headboard posts lying on my tummy and then he left for a minute. When he got back, I heard some drawers opening and closing and then smelled matches being lit and asked what he was up to and got a sharp slap on the ass and told to keep. I have some more evidence on its way to me this week, then I will know one way or the other if my hard work has proven fruitful.”“So, say that Lainey is who you think she is then how does that leave you, and indeed the general public, with the old question of who Celia Allene is.”“It will move me, rather us, a whole lot closer to solving the mystery of Celia Allene.”“If I didn’t know better I would say that sounds like a plug for a book.”“You never know Alice.”“Thank you, Anna Jameson, for a. She'd turned into the grown woman version of an awful brat, cold and disinterested in her husband's life, acting as though her husband was nothing more than a walking ATM. To make matters worse, she had let herself go completely—her body, which was once almost as tight as Jenny's, had gotten saggy and loose, and she made no efforts to keep herself together for her husband...who in Jenny's mind, deserved much, much more. Jenny also had the suspicion that they didn't have sex very much anymore;.