“Oh, sure, we have lots of intellectual property and services to sell, but so what? So do plenty of other firms! We’re different because of our pe...ple! It’s our reason for being! If it weren’t, I’d slash costs to the bone, milk the software for everything I could, and do my best to sell the company to some investor group and retire with a pile of cash. That is NOT what I want to do. And, as I said, not doing that means all those relationships I spoke of in the meeting HAVE to be the way they. Dianne did ask if Dawn would ever be allowed to wear clothes, again. I replied with a negative response.After she left I asked Dawn, ?why is she going to be absent, slave??Dawn smiled and said, ?she has a date???I think that she wants me to be jeaulous, the guy is not her type at all Master.?I thought to myself, ?I hope he doesn’t try anything, she might break his arm or something!?Chapter SeventeenLarry had called a couple of times and sent emails inquiring about the twins, so I phoned and. Accompanied only by the Golden Palace's Chief Eunuch, he let himself into the suite and proceeded to tour the rooms, of which there were six, placed three on either side of the corridor with the sloping floor and the drain. In the first room, containing the rack, he wasted no time, merely ascertaining that the equipment was all working satisfactorily. The mechanism moved easily and smoothly and the cuffs locked and unlocked as they should. The electrocution circuits he could not test without a. . we're not asking you to abuse her. Just give her enough of what she feels she needs to keep her from going to bars to find someone else to give it to her."Then Sandi did the coup de grace. "Don't forget you implicitly PROMISED to discipline her ... and you haven't done anything about it, since." Well, she hasn't misbehaved, have she?" No, but she's beginning to wonder if the boundaries are still there, she struggles against acting out because she's not sure."I thought about it for a while, in.