Well, you still have my tape where I confessed to a crime against you." Doesn't matter. You won't try to avoid punishment, will you? All of you really... should get punished. Your whole family. They were in on it, weren't they? Your friends and family. They were in on it. Every last one of them," I pointed out."All the more reason to claim us ... all of us. Make us yours. Use our bodies for your pleasure whenever you want them. Bethany, too. Don't leave her out. She's part of it as well. She wants. * * * ‘Danni’s getting suspicious,’ said Rob as they sat in a secluded corner of a pub. ‘I know,’ Nicole agreed. She sipped her cider thoughtfully. ‘She’s your sister, so you need to tell her.’ ‘Yeah I know that — I’ll have a chat with her later. She’ll be fine about it.’ Rob’s phone blipped to indicate a text receieved and he pulled it out of his jeans pocket. It was Lizzie again. God, he thought crossly, would she never get the message? He read the short text and without replying, placed it. It was meant to feel like that. Its a heavy, acute thing, that closes in around anyone who comes down here. ?I personally don’t spend much time here. ?My staff here are experts at what they do. I pay them well to do what they do. What they do down here is not described anywhere in the Geneva Convention.?At first there is no-one behind the desk. After a few minutes the sound of heels, coming back up from the gloom the other side of the bars. Emerging out of the shadows, a lady older than myself,. I’d have had to have been either a block of Ice or a twenty-four-carat sociopath not to fall bit-by-bit more in love with this wonderful human being as she opened up and shared in this way.And, of course, it wasn’t a one-way street. By nature more reticent to open up, happier to listen than to talk, Gemma had been far too savvy and loving to let me get away with my normal behavior. And seeing how she listened, questioned and responded, without dwelling on it I knew that with each passing day.