I should’ve got on one knee when I had the chance, and professed my undying admiration for her. Instead, I destroyed her. I can practically hear her... laughing from hell.” He looked up at me with a rueful smile, and inclined his head slightly. “You can kill me now, Elena Straltaira.” “No.” I whispered. “No?” He asked, surprised, “Why not?” “Elena?” Mom asked. I shook my head, tears running down my cheeks. I pulled my sword away, and sat on the steps of the throne. “Look around us, Mom.” I. The first stroke of the second dozen landed a littlehigher then the rest, creating a fresh mark on what remained of the pale flesh. Dawson knelt down and examined what he had achieved. He smiled to himselfin satisfaction and delivered three strokes directly across the tender areaof flesh at the top of the woman's legs. It seemed impossible, but she howledlouder than she had done before. Dawson stood back and waited for her howling to subside. He noticed the puffy,angry, deep blue marks of. I couldn’t imagine two weeks of this. Well, I guess I could, we’d done it before, but… CRAP!“Starting now… an hour ago, actually.” She looked at her watch, “Ten-forty-seven PM,” a short hesitation, “November nineteenth, remember the time, both of us,” she looked back toward me, “and we’re not going to make it easy… we both sleep naked, every night.” Addie got an evil grin on her face, before she added, “At least you do.”I groaned, but Addie wasn’t through, “And if there’s an ‘accident’, with. ”“Where did you go?”“I just walked around. I didn’t want to go to any of my friends’ houses.”“Why not?”“Because all I could think about was you guys, being mad. It made me feel ... I don’t know ... just miserable.”“You really do try to make Barbie happy, don’t you?” asked Julie.“Most of the time, yeah,” he said. “She’s very demanding, though. She’s even kind of bossy, you know?”“A girl? Bossy? No way,” teased Julie.“Are you like that with Dad? Do you make him do stuff a certain way when you.