‘I do,’ he said. ‘I expected this, when we started.’ ‘You didn’t trust me?’ ‘I trusted you. I trust you now. I just expected something... like this.’ ‘I didn’t lie,’ Ashley said. ‘I know.’ Another silence. David still seemed too calm. After a while Ashley took his hand. ‘Can we think about this?’ she said. ‘Try and think how to make us work?’ ‘We know how to make us work. Don’t sleep with other people.’ ‘I’m not going to promise you something I don’t know I can keep. I can’t do that.’ He nodded.. .The...Rule?" I said again with more force causing her to squirm in the chair, a visible glint of wetness showing between her legs. "Not in Daddy's chair when he's not home...", she said quietly. "What don't we do in Daddy's chair when he's not home?" I said sternly tracing the tip of the blade across her cheek and down to the topmost button of the shirt, eliciting a visible shudder from her and causing her to pull away. Wrapping the leash around my hand twice to shorten its length, I gave. " Joe's response is terse."No, I can understand. And then?" We contacted the police as soon as we realised she was gone." As soon as?" After I said good-bye to Jennifer I travelled to Seoul in South Korea with business colleagues and it was several days before I realised that something was wrong. I was on the other side of the world you see, and I couldn't contact her" But what about her parents?" The police officer glances at Inga and Andrew."We do not live nearby", offers Andrew."I see. So. Later, when we were in bed, Sammy admitted that it was not as it appeared. While he treasured the friendships he shared with the rest of the group, something was missing, something he couldn't put his finger on. "I trust them, but not enough to talk about certain things. We're what I call top-layer friends. They wouldn't like knowing what's below the crust. I've got stuff buried so deep it even frightens me."We hadn't made love yet and I was surprised that he wanted to talk."Have you ever known.