"After all the practice you had, you should be able to walk on these," Gabrielle said, and held out a pair of the sexiest boots I had ever seen. "Wow,... I said, and sat down on the edge of her bed to put them on. They were over the knee, pointy and with impossible high stiletto heels. The feeling of zipping up the black leather around my fishnets was simply magical. I stood up and did some steps. The boots felt surprisingly comfortable. "And now for the piece de resistance," Gabrielle said. "I. I aim to put that right."He laughed and drove home whilst she went first into her office. Hanna actually had a small building all to herself just next to the main reception, which had very limited access to others. It had a few rooms including the office, waiting room and a video suite. Leaving her coat and bag, she reset the alarm and walked around to the bar in the main building.There were about 50 people in the bar, but the girl hanna was meeting wasn't there. Others greeted her and an old. This instinctively set him on edge, and he mentally prepared himself for the worst. Scanning the dark thick water of the pond, he became aware that he wasn’t alone, and that figures were coming up from the water’s depths towards him.The heads that bobbed on the water’s surface looked deceptively human, with wild green hair and half submerged faces. Safe on the shore of the pond, Laurentius watched them, as they watched him. It was hard to know who was afraid of who at that moment, but fear. I reached over and poured her a glass of wine and handed it to her, then topped off my bourbon. "Cheers! Dad!" she said as she leaned across the hot tub so we could touch our plastic glasses together. "Cheers!" I said.We settled into some light banter about nothing in particular and I had begin to think I might survive the situation, when, after shifting around uncomfortably, Ashley said, "This lace is really uncomfortable in the water dad. Can't I please take it off? I won't tell mom --.