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"Eleanor loves books," he said "She even works in a bookstore so at the very least you’ll have a perfectly alphabetized collection"

"Oh, it’s already alphabetized," Daniel said as he ushered them inside the house "I’lish one"

Eleanor glanced around Daniel’s ho room The house seematic master In the presence of such pain, Eleanor doubted she could ever feel at holance froht her to her knees at his feet In private she always sat at his feet That she was to take the standard sub--Daniel was one of them Or had been, at least, before his wife died

"Could I offer either of you a drink?" Daniel asked, taking a seat on the sofa across from them

"No, thank you" Eleanor let hiht leaves in three hours"

"Back to Ro tired of it all

"I’ll walk you out"

Usually he would never leave her without a long and intier gently across her cheek and chin, and left her alone in the rooh she desperately wanted to run after hi him to take her with him But she was far too well-trained to break a sub in what she kneould be a futile emotional outburst

After a fewat first and Eleanor could only keep her silence and her eyes lowered

"Please, sit," he said, his voice kind and quietly aenerous," she said, unable to maintain her submissive comportment now that she was truly alone with Daniel

"I understand that you’re upset with this arrangeet it," she said as she sat in the arht? Bad cop works ood cop comes in and offers me the milk and the cookies and the nice colected to ive Daniel some credit He was iher even than he looked

"He may live to be a hundred and the word ‘smart-ass’ will never pass those perfect lips of his and you know it," she said

Daniel half laughed "He is a bit too proper for that, isn’t he? I suppose he would say you were--"

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