Tom read the approach of Anna's owner in hers and Mistress' shifting body language well before he opened his ignorant mouth. "Anna! You useless little...slut! Get your ass over here now!" It really was like night and day, him and Mistress. Bastard's dominance had all the elegance of nail-studded baseball bat. Mistress released Toms' hair. Her hand stopped Anna as the girl started to obey. "She doesn't belong to you anymore. We had a wager." "Fuck that! She's mine and her instigating little ass is. For a minute I thought he meant Janet, but then I realized there was no way he'd know about her -- or bring it up that way. "Well her whole family will be here," I said.He nodded. "How's the car fund coming?" I should have about a grand in a month, in time for my birthday. Depends on what gramma gives me this year: clothes or money."Dad laughed at that. "Sounds good," he said. "If you want, I'll go with you car shopping." Dad was a big guy, over six feet tall and wide. He'd been a linebacker in. ”“You and your daughter are certainly cut from the same cloth!”“Is that any surprise, really?”“NO!” I chuckled.José came in a moment later with Dona in tow, followed by Sticks and Kim. Elizaveta arrived just after them.“I didn’t realize we were inviting an audience!” Sticks said as he uncovered the drums.“I made him bring me!” Dona declared. “Well, once I heard that Elizaveta was here last time.”Once we were all set up, we played through our repertoire of seven songs, though all of them were. Brand sat eating his breakfast, wondering where everyone was when Collin wandered in looking half asleep. Collin poured himself a cup of coffee and sat down. The two sat in silence until Brand said "Rav keep you up all night?" "No a wild wench did" grinned Collin, laughing Brand grinned at Collin, "my grandfather is usually an early riser, I'm surprised he isn't down all ready. I was hoping to introduce him to Marluxion today."Casually Collin said "Stephen is having breakfast with Marluxion,.