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Offering my home address to the mysterious woman does not really enhance my peril. It is evident she has ample research resources and investigatory skill. She can find me any time. Besides, I am not hard to locate and I have probably already been followed by some gumshoe government agent. And now that they know, or at least this ‘Ann Cromwell’ knows, that I am aware of the faux pas that has returned Douglas Michael Harper to being a person of interest, I too am a person of interest.
Leaving my office for the day, I stroll with enthusiasm knowing that my naked well restrained houseboy awaits. I smile inwardly recalling the intensity of the reaction to the agony induced the prior evening, forced to accept the simple suffering of rock salt introduced to the most sensitive epidermis o
