He then realized what he was doing all too late and jerked his hand back, accidentally pulling on it. He panicked. Of course Ran was much too powerful... for someone to sneak up on her, she was acutely aware of what this human was doing. She was simply in the mood to torment a foolish human who dared lay his hands on her. She was knowingly watching him the whole time. She turned around almost immediately and gave the man a menacing glare that sent chills down his spine and made it painfully. The device would simply torment her for as long as Madam desired, and with the ropes claiming her, there was nothing Lily could do to escape."Enjoy," Madam whispered in her ear, then gave her a soft kiss on the cheek.Lily listened carefully, but on the carpet there was no way for her to hear if Madam remained next to her, or if she had left. She tried to listen for Madam's breath, or the creak of floorboards, or anything else that might indicate that she was not alone, but the tiny buzz of the. “Would you and your talented friends and family be interested in coming back for the rest of the week and do some more of what you did tonight?”Mom came up behind me saying, “Did I hear you correctly, you want us back to do this all again?”“Yes, Ms. Forrester, we would provide you with dinner and a small fee of maybe $1,000 a night?”“We are on vacation,” Alice said.“$2,000?” he came back with.I put out my hand and said, “You have a deal, could we get a table closer to the piano?”“Michael,” Jan. I mean, she was her mother's daughter after all.And a couple of times she even made me do it when I was with mom. And I could have said no then too, but I didn't. Or, I did of course but just a little and then I kinda let her talk me into it.Like the first time that happened I was in the living room on the couch with my laptop on my lap and mom was ironing a bunch of clothes behind me and the TV was on because mom was watching it a little but I can't remember what was on because I wasn't.