"I've been thinking about this since the first day you walked into the newsroom for your interview. It's taken me a long time to work up the courage t... tell you just how much I'm attracted to you." You should have said something sooner. I was attracted to you too." I thought so but I wasn't sure. Even tonight, or when you asked me to go to the party with you, I wanted to right away. But I knew if I did I'd want to bring you back here with me. I wasn't sure if you'd be okay with that. I was. " Holmes added quietly, as his concerned eyes scanned the young woman's pale features."Yes, phantasms - evil ghosts that caused my dear sister great distress, for these ghouls, they - well they molested her in a most intimate way. They would feed from her body, supping deep of her essence and draining her spirit. Worse of all during her dreams a dark figure was always present, orchestrating their devilish assaults. It took me many tearful sessions to get to the truth, and once I did it shocked. His mother ran a local massage therapy business and of course she needed someone to train her interns or pupils with. Her choice, Nick. So every week night, Nick was forced to spend a couple hours on the table with nothing but a towel on and get pounded by clumsy and rough fists, knuckles, hands, elbows and more. The whole laying naked on the table thing had bothered him at first since his mother was right there, watching and directing her students how to next tortue him but now he was use to. Same with the TV. Even if a BluRay was playing, or TV or Netfilx, whatever, after a few minutes the computer would start pushing through the subliminal messages he chose.He laughed when he was all done with it. All the time and effort he’d put into it, and… no one to test it on. “What the hell, it gave me something to do, right?” he’d asked himself.A couple of weeks later he’d gotten the call. The game changer. He was being asked to take custody of his twin “nieces”, his friend’s daughters.