“She caught me by surprise! It won’t happen again!” I said. Henry smiled and lifted up my chin to place a magnificent kiss on my mouth. Wow! He ...ad a very skilled tongue, as he kissed me for what seemed an eternity but it could only have been seconds, I started to imagine what his tongue was capable of elsewhere and my body reacted by making me instantly wet. God, I was not going to last long if I didn’t get a hold of myself, so I stopped the kiss. He was not taken aback, but moved closer and. Susan Bailey was driving in the good direction for 4 AM Seattle traffic, and made it to the road that her home was on in a little less than half an hour. She’d found the BBC World Service on the satellite radio before she’d left Rachel’s place, and had been listening for information as she drove home.They’d reported that the attack had come during a stop on the castle tour, that the assailant had posed as a tourist and attacked her with a knife of some kind. They then said that La Contessa had. “Help yourself.” And walked to the kitchen to find another glass of Scotch. I was slouched in a chair with my drink when she reappeared – naked. I thought I should have told her to stay dressed, not to cover herself, but to cover the injuries. She knelt in front of me, head down, and waited.“What is your name?”Her head jerked up, then back down. There was a long pause, then in a subdued soprano, “Julia, Master.”“Julia ... what?”“Julia Evans, Master.” After a very long hesitation, “Of course you. Her arm was pretty weak, and she’d need quite a bit of physical therapy. She still tired easily, but otherwise seemed to be doing well.Kathy Will continued to be nice to me, but I wasn’t doing anything more than being nice back. She made it very clear what she wanted, but I wasn’t interested. I asked Jennifer about her thoughts on a date with Janet Owens. She just laughed.“Sure, go on a date with her. I’ll be amused.”“This sounds very much like what you said about Kathy Will.”“Go out with her.