People have said I can be a real monster to work with. That hasn’t been your experience, has it Heinrich?”Helen took the smoke grenade out of her ...purse. From the hall down below, she could hear Dietz shouting.“Who the fuck is she?” Dietz shouted in German. “What is this Mickey Mouse shit?”“I was always partial to Looney Tunes as a kid, Heiny.” Helen responded in the same language over the PA. “Yes, I can hear you in there. And we’ll be talking face to face very soon.”Down in the office,. "Michael darlin', if I were to be making you feel better, would you be agreeable to coming up on deck with me?"Michael moaned and rolled over on his side. "Leave me be woman, I've no interest in slap and tickle just now. Let me suffer in silence." Michael Clancey O'Gabbin, you don't suffer in silence, you moan and you groan like you're on your death bed. Now I have a way to make you feel better, would you be interested in giving it a whirl? It 'tis a bit strange I admit but it will be making. These are the kinds of things that can leave scars on one’s soul.It could have ended badly, but Lucille is a fighter, and she wasn’t going down easy.However, between trying to keep a roof over her baby’s head and food on their table, she never had a chance to explore her own sexuality. In fact, other than by her own hand, she had lived without sex of any kind for over 17 years. Once she became one of my slaves and opened herself up to being and doing everything that I demanded of her, she had. I had thought about including Siobhan, but decided not to on the basis that it was an informal preliminary proposal and the formal part would come later.There was a tendency to underestimate Doug Cruickshank at Emerald. Perhaps it was his ever-upbeat personality, or his quirky English vocabulary, or something else altogether. A number of my peers didn't understand what he contributed to the operation and dismissed him as a bit of a flake. I knew better.He was bright, well educated, and crafty..