Later on we are sitting next to each other on the settee when she grabs hold of my hand and says something about wanting to repay me for everything.In...what way I think to myself knowing she could never afford to pay back what she owedme, money,getting her car repaired,putting up shelves and odds and ends round her home;all things I know a step-dad should do without question not knowing what she had in mind,I was soon to find out! She got up saying she was going to freshen up and left me. I immediately got stuck but fortunately Jane saw meand got the security guard, who was a handsome well built young man, tohelp extricate my shoe and I had my Cinderella moment as he knelt to helpme get my foot in my shoe before sweeping my feet away as he scooped meup in his arms and carried me to the gate before gently setting me down.I had never known what it felt to be picked up in a man's arms like thatsince my Dad used to pick me up when I was a little boy. Next to thishunk I felt like a. It's true that I felt sort of lucky that she was the 'monster' of the castle, but it was still embarrassing nevertheless to fail my duty this way. No, it wasn't only that, it was mostly how she was looking at me, she knew that I was already burning in desires of pleasing her down there and it only made this even more humiliating for me. Perhaps that was her purpose? Her smug expression didn't fade and she just waved a little bit her feet.It wasn't that I forgot about my pride or that I was. “I’m really sorry, Hiryu. That was an awful, terrible thing to happen to you. It must’ve been horrible, thinking you were about to die, and in such a painful, demeaning way too. No one should have to go through something like that. And you’re right. Eigis should – and will be – punished for what he did. But – let’s not kill him, alright? Please. That’s all I’m asking.”Her right hand reached out, slipping under the demon’s chin, gently rubbing his throat. Eigis couldn’t help it – every muscle in.