’ ‘Poor Todd. He loves you more than I’ve ever seen. You’ve hit him in his biggest weakness.’ I was crying now, ‘I know, I know.’ ‘Cal... him. Call him right now.’ As I was objecting, ‘I can’t handle that right now.’ Heather was already dialing the number and handed me the telephone as it started to ring. ‘Hello.’ One weak word escaped between my sobs, ‘Todd?’ ‘Yes, pretty one, are you all right? What is it?’ ‘I didn’t come home last night.’ ‘I noticed.’ ‘Can I come home?’ ‘Yes, we need to talk.’. He proceeded to treat her back, butt, and thighs as he had her sister’s. When done, he also wrapped her in a towel and had her sit near the fire. He rinsed out the wash cloth and hung it near the fire to dry. The water was dumped in the slop bucket to be removed later.“I am going to the kitchen to get something to eat,” he told the girls, “would you like something too?”“Yes, Master, please. We have not eaten in two days,” they both replied, again in tears.“Your old Master didn’t feed you. After we got in I put the kettle on and made some coffee while M put the swim things in the wash, we were both cold so the hot coffee went quickly and it wasn’t long before M got up of the sofa, “going Somewhere?” I asked innocently knowing full well that her bladder had little capacity at this stage in the pregnancy, “for a piss, why?” she replied, “the flowers outside could do with watering” I said with a grin, trying to show enthusiasm and disinterest at the same time. “Hmm not this time”. “Truth Antonia, I was afraid you’d turn me down.”“I wouldn’t you know, you should ask.”In the most serious voice I could muster I asked, “Antonia will you have dinner with me tonight?”“Let’s see how I feel, I’m sore and still a little queasy,” she answered.“What can I do to help?” I asked.“Just keep rubbing my back, you’ve got nice hands.”After ten or fifteen minutes she sat up, “Antonia’s got to tinkle,” as she wobbled to the bathroom.She was gone a long time, when she came out she had a dazed.