"You have beautiful children." I continue, still trying to gather the courage to state my revelation. "By the time you hear this from other people, th... story of how things happened will be distorted. My lover, your husband, he is not the most loyal man." My voice and fingers tremble while opening the bottle of scotch. "Maybe I should begin right from the start.” I take a sip of the liquor letting the burn enter my stomach. “He was charming and sweet. I worked in the floor above him and we would. "I presumed he was talking about fucking me, and I certainly hoped he was. I was a different person from the narrow-minded provincial boy who had sat trembling across the desk from this man earlier in the day. I felt like I was growing up, and fast.I licked his big black asshole with something akin to pride, pride in my new rounded character. He moaned in ecstasy."Shit," he said. "Nobody ever done it so good before. Lick my ass, boy."I could have eaten the guy for dinner. My tongue had opened. Oh, and she had certainly felt it when he had said those stupid, misogynistic things and they had ended up wrestling in the grass. At first, she had just played with him, confident that she could easily beat him. But when he had gone out of line and tried to trick her, she had felt her anger rise and with it came that strange thrill that made her want to dominate him. He had given in almost right away though, tapping out like a scared little kid, and that’s when it had hit her.A memory of a. Elaine had searched Béla's house while it was still standing and not found it. She hadn't been able to locate it anywhere – almost like it was hiding from her. And it called out to a convicted murderess, instead, two hundred years later.'It must have been commanded to respond to her, specifically, ' Elaine realized. 'But who would have given it a command like that? Everyone who had access was already dead!'It didn't matter who had commanded the Praetor, if, indeed, anyone had. The Praetor was.