‘Four million dollars,’ I say. My voice is just above a whisper. I know she is going to freak out. I mean, if I was a mother and my daughter was t...elling me what I am telling her, I would freak out too. ‘I know you have to call the police and tell them I am home. I know they will want to talk to me, ask me questions. But I can only tell them the bare minimum.’ I continue to speak in a low, unsure voice. ‘This is the way it has to be, Mom. The only way I can be here with you.’ ‘I can’t believe. He did his best to avoid eye contact with me but we both knew the score and he smiled behind his hand just enough to make me want to punch him in his balls to teach him some manners.Unfortunately, it was neither the time nor the place or such discipline as all boys and girls in blue were forewarned to watch their “Ps and Qs” with the Internal Affairs goons looking for fresh blood to put on their dirty cop list.It was not the time to play “Dirty Harry” with cameras and eyes watching every move. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dangien began to realize he’d been led in circles. “That is the way!” he thought to himself. The stairs to the next level were just ahead, and he began to climb the turning stairway, up into the tower.As he climbed, he began to hear a rush of water flowing down towards him. It was a flash flood, and Schulrod meant to wash him back down. “Go, before I drown you, boy!” his voice echoed with the crash of the waves rushing towards Dangien.“Never!” Dangien yelled. "Lay down on the floor in the kitchen, you unclean pig!" the Mistress snarled at me... and I hurried to obey. The floor in the kitchen was cold, unyielding linoleum - practical but hardly comfortable to lay upon. She turned to Bill and ordered him to stand over me, one foot on either side of my upper thighs. "Now piss all over her!" She ordered.By now I knew better than to argue or to plead for mercy and instead I simply grabbed a deep breath of air and closed my eyes. A second later, the.