"Jessica tells me that she expected you, but not so soon. She didn't tell any of us why, though," Theresa explained."Let's all go inside and get situa...ted," Down said. "Then we can talk. Frankly we're drawing more attention, right now, than I'm comfortable with."Sure enough, there was evidence that behind the pulled corners of curtains, people in the apartments were watching us.Jessica wheeled me up the sidewalk and then stopped."How did that get here?" she asked."What?" her mother wanted to. She smiled at the group, somewhat uncomfortably, it seemed, and then Mr Donovan paused, cleared his throat and let his warm smile fade away, and he announced in a very sad manner that the home office had known for some time that someone was skimming considerable sums of money off the top and he had now been requested to identify who that person was.Ms Petrakis' face went pale, and she stared straight ahead in terror; her hands were fidgeting compulsively in front of her. "Ladies and gentleman,". Then helaced each breast through two holes with buckles, and pulled and buckled thestraps tight. He had purposefully left the two straps at her crotch hangingfree, as he had not finished with her down there yet. Walking over to thecupboard door, Alice saw her father fetch a large plank of wood withholes in it. He placed it at her feet and pulled some buckles on her anklesthrough the furthest holes on either side, causing Alice to split her legs in two while sitting on thefloor. ?Time to pull. "It's about maintaining your respect and their obedience Margot," Iris was saying calmly, "And you will surely lose that if he thinks he's in love with you Margot?"Iris clearly realised I was in an affair with Guy and responding to her logic, I said sheepishly, "Oh ... I see."And then needing Iris to understand, I confessed weakly, "I had wondered why he'd been so difficult with me lately Iris. I just seemed to loose all control."Iris smiled caringly, "They get the bit between their teeth and.