But what happened? It was almost like this tiger was talking!" She was," Kenny said quietly. "And thank you, sir, from all of us."A few minutes later,... the surgeon came out from the other surgery, even more tired than Jake Carter had been. He announced that little Duke would make it, too. The poor doctor was almost knocked over as Princess, now utterly overjoyed, could not thank him enough.Just then, Ken Carlson arrived at the hospital along with Jeff Collins. They immediately shared in the joy. So far they were still parceling out the information on a need to know only basis. The only thing they actually did now was make sure that he wasn't kept in the dark about anything he was working on for them.While lost in thought he also thought about Dusty's home. The design of Dusty and Suzan's manor was totally different than normal manor homes and even Melkin had to admit he was impressed by it.Dusty had designed the home to look like most, but he first used wood as the frame for it. Then. She couldn’t wait to get it on with him.Lucy arrived feeling nervous and tentative. She wanted to look as good as she could and had bought a new outfit especially for it. Lucy showered and dressed. She put on her new red burlesques basque and fishnet stockings. Five inch opened toed black stiletto heels and some new jewellery and a wig. She had spent time doing her makeup, with big blue glitter eyes and shiny red lips. The last item was a purple silk dress that was tight and very short.When she. Manu let her cry herself out on the floor; it was he that removed Lucinda from the pillar and shackled her crying, tortured body to the wall. It was he that removed the pleading, frightened Maya and shackled her to the pillar."We will do your breasts before we do hers" Manu told her, as a small measure of consolation.Between sobs of anguish and terror, Maya had enough presence of mind to answer:"Thank you."Only after Maya was prepared did Manu kneel besides Lila to console her. She did not want.