.. what ... Angeline! Come away from there!” Marie stammered out.Angeline bolted upright, staring at her mother in horror, blushing furiously. She t...hen ran away from the bedside, to wrap her arms around her mother and bury her head in the older woman’s shoulder.“I’m sorry, mother...” the young girl sobbed, “I know I’m supposed to be kept pure, but he told me you were a traitor, and I had to show my loyalty to the throne...”“Shh, sweetling, hush...” Marie said as she comforted the girl. She. He was just about to ask when he realized that she was lookingbehind him. He turned, but it was too late.A lancing fire shot through his shoulder as a snarling weight descendedupon him. It pressed down on him, growling ferociously at his ear asingle clawed hand closed around his throat.Before he could even understand what was happening, Kaiden found himselfflipped over, his wounded back pressed against the hard granite surface.Towering above him was a nightmarish monstrosity of fur and tooth. I was laid across the sofa, my head inhis lap."Wow!" I whispered softly.Will smiled a gentle and rather self satisfied smile. His hansom featureswere radiant in my afterglow. I leaned upwards and placed a gentle kisson his lips.As we broke he said "You give the sweetest kisses." It's strange that I don't feel guilty. I should, but I don't." My wordssounded distant, but hit a point inside of me that made me realised thatBill left me achingly hungry for his touch."Fern you are an amazing woman,". In a way, it was almost a promise that worse was coming.There were also other psychological implications to a slap. It was an attack against a man’s masculinity. Women got slapped while men were punched.Chuck recognized that things were only going to get worse. He had a choice, he could do as the man wanted and tell him everything he wanted to know, or he could resist and try to tell him nothing. If he did what the man wanted, Betsy would get hurt or killed. If he resisted, he was going to be.