0 comments/ 16449 views/ 6 favorites Countess Ivanna's Castle By: PompousBuffoon (This is a tongue-in-cheek Erotic Horror story. It contains representations of seduction, lesbian sex and light bondage. As always, your literary comments and your votes are appreciated. A Happy Halloween to All!) * There are times in life when you take stock of yourself and ask: 'Where did it all go wrong?' The particular circumstance that I found myself in on that fateful evening was that I was sitting in a credit counseling service staring at a set of papers while trying not to check out the credit counselors gorgeous boobs. Ivanna Basarab was not at all what I would have pictured a credit councilor, or an accountant to look like. She appeared to be neither young nor old. She was quite tall. She had pale skin that was starkly offset by her jet black hair. Yes, Ivanna was exquisitely beautiful. And although it appeared that Ivanna was trying to keep her ample assets tucked away inside that frilly blouse and indecently short, slit skirt, it is entirely clear to me now that the opposite was true. Unfortunately for me, such moments of clarity are usually reserved for the times in life after you have slid down to the point of no return on whatever slippery slope that you happen to be on. Ivanna looked over the tops of her glasses and pointed a long manicured finger at the end of the first page while directing helpfully, "Initial here dear." Startled, I looked up from her cleavage and stammered, "Yes, but I haven't finished reading the document... I normally wouldn't sign anything like this without my wife present." Ivanna's beautiful blood red lips curled into a knowing smile and as she sympathized, "Yes, I realize that this process is difficult and the fine print doesn't make it any easier. But just as soon as you initial the first page, we can move on to the next page of the agreement. If it will make it easier for you, I'll just explain each page more fully for you as it relates to the brief verbal explanation that I have already provided. Then you initial, or sign where I direct you to. Oh where are my manners? Drink your tea dear." I hesitated before I took a comforting sip from the cup of herbal tea that Ivanna had made for me only a few moments before, while she had briefly explained the process that I was going to be subjected to. Then she had proffered the contract for me to sign. "Well you see; it's just that... Jolene has been away for the last week, uh, on er, business. She did promise to be here tonight though; maybe I should just wait until my wife arrives." Ivanna's beguiling green eyes sparkled as she slid a pen closer to my hand, "There, there now. I know all about it. Your case is hardly unique. You've gotten in over your head and now you need to have a helping hand." Ivanna caressed my hand with an elegant blood red finger nail, "I am ready to be that helping hand Phillip. You just have to learn to trust me. Almost all of the happy members of my 'family' were hesitant at first, but once the document is signed they always feel so much better! Now, the first page simply says that I agree to assume all of your existing worldly debts. Since only you seem to have a problem with resisting the unrestrained use of the credit cards that are in your name, I don't think that we need to wait for Jolene. Initial right here then turn the page. Now drink your tea darling." I wearily took a deep sigh then took another sip. I reflected that normally I don't even like herbal tea. I heard the impatient tapping of Ivanna's fingers on the desk top. Still I hesitated for another moment. I took another sip of the steaming hot herbal tea; I looked again at the jumble of words and had just a little more difficulty than before in focusing my eyes on the page. A sharp fingernail pointed up under my chin and lifted my gaze to find Ivanna lounging comfortably across the back edge of the desk. Her impossibly long smooth thighs crossed towards me along the side edge of the desk. The cheek of her entrancing face rested comfortably on one lily white palm while the upper half of the unread document was now almost entirely obscured by Ivanna's plump breasts that strained insistently at the shear fabric of her blouse. Ivanna pouted, "Phillip, I'm going to have to make a small confession... I believe that our new relationship will be greatly aided by my making a clean breast of it, wouldn't you agree?" I stared dumbly at the sumptuous cleavage before me, "Clean breasts...?" Ivanna pressed the pen into my hand, "You see Phillip, Jolene has been staying with me for the past week. We have become quite close... and I am hosting a party tonight; you know, Halloween? You are my last appointment for this evening and I KNOW that you wouldn't want for me to be late to my own party, so you should initial here to say that I have fully explained this page to you." I resignedly nodded my head and smiled in response to her warm welcoming smile. Ivanna's beautiful green eyes flashed, "In fact Phillip, you should come to my party too; I would love for both you and Jolene to be my special guests of honor!" I breathed in deep and detected the source of the intoxicating scent that had been slowly filling the room. It was Ivanna's perfume. I hesitated as her massive breasts jiggled invitingly before me. I swallowed while my head began to swim, I unsteadily initialed the page. Ivanna purred while sliding the cup of tea to me, "Very good Philip! Now drink the rest of your tea while I continue. The next page is simply a declaration that you have spent a lifetime overcompensating for your perceived inadequacies. Your mother was overbearing and as a natural result, your father began to feel emasculated. Naturally and through no fault of your own, he became needlessly oppressive towards you. This was most likely to make up for his own feelings of inadequacy at being so thoroughly dominated by his wife." I looked up, not entirely certain that I had heard correctly. Ivanna's shook her head sympathetically and pouted, "Your class-mates in school all picked on you because of your short stature and your insecurities. As a result, you undertook a program of body-building and joined your high school and your college wrestling teams... initial here, here and here. Drink your tea darling." I sheepishly initialed where commanded, while wondering why such details of my childhood should be a part of a debt consolidation agreement. Then I took a comforting sip from the cup and froze halfway. Ivanna's accusing eyes shocked me out of my train of thought as she chided, "Philip, you must learn to drink your tea in the proper fashion; you will drink with the little pinky finger extended!" I meekly extended my pinky finger and resumed wondering what the circumstances of my childhood..." A single button popped open on Ivanna's blouse and afforded me an even more breathtaking view of her gorgeous breasts. Then Ivanna began to smile as she caressed my back and shoulder with the point of her shoe as her luscious legs curved ever closer. I looked dizzily all around from her shins up to the place between her thighs where the ending of the skirt's slit denied me a look at... "Phillip darling, you have finished your tea. You must let me pour another cup for you!" Ivanna snatched the empty cup, rolled deftly off of the desk top and turned around to refill the teacup. She wiggled her rounded bottom as she continued to talk to the mirrored wall behind the desk while pouring the cup of tea, "Now the next page details you're your unhealthy obsession with the female body. These immature fascinations absolutely scream..." Ivanna's breasts jiggled again as she turned back around and placed the cup before me, "...Ah, shall we say 'repressed homosexual urges?' But that of course would be simple Freudian terminology for what would be much more serious and deeply rooted psychological and spiritual problems. I must admit that I found Freud to be boring little fellow with the most dreadfully simplistic view of human nature. I shudder to think that his theories are still taught in your schools to this day! Now where was I..., oh yes, your envy of women along with your need to recast your lovely wife in the role of your idealized mother would be your quite understandable response to the confusion over your continual childhood humiliations and the feelings of inadequacy that you must have felt after losing your job. After all, you did spend the next four years, impotently sitting on your wife's couch, while she went out to work each day! And so there you were: playing video games, amusing yourself with video pornography and maxing out your credit cards with online shopping. Of course you will admit that any real man would have simply gone out and gotten himself another job." Ivanna's tone turned icily judgmental, "Oh yes and then of course, there were the occasional beatings that you would subject you lovely wife to... Is something the matter Phillip?" My mind reeled trying to understand how this woman could possibly... Ivanna leaned from the waist and landed both hands on either side of my hands, affording me yet another dizzying look down her half unbuttoned blouse to where her nearly unrestrained breasts swung hypnotically before me. She looked at me dead in the eyes, smiling a dazzlingly beautiful smile and commanded, "Phillip, drink your tea! You will need to keep well hydrated. You can thank me later." Ivanna's neatly manicured finger tip pointed, "Now initial here, here, here, here and turn to the last page. See this isn't so painful is it my little one?" I drank down half of the cup while initialing where commanded and tried to understand why I felt so angry. Ivanna sauntered seductively to sit herself on the edge of the desk before me. She propped one of her pointed high heeled shoes on the edge of my chair between my thighs, all but trapping my balls under her foot. I looked up dumbly as she finished unbuttoning her blouse and slipped it off, discarding it carelessly to the floor. "Now this last page simply states that you consent to enter into a personal services contract with me for the term of forty-eight months." Ivanna unzipped the side of her skirt and tossed it away while confiding, "I was pushing for a life time contract, but your dear wife is such a kind hearted and clever lady. She made me an offer that I must confess I found too tempting to pass up! Drink up dear. Drink your tea." Stunned, I quickly finished the rest of my tea, unable to tear my eyes away from Ivanna's long smooth thigh. She turned and I stole a momentary glance down to her neatly trimmed black haired bush that did nothing to hide her puffy pink lips and slightly engorged clit which was peaking up at me from under its hood, only inches from my dick that was now straining to free itself from the pressure of the pointed shoe and burst out of my pants. I watched as Ivanna twisted her trim naked torso, retrieving the document. She took the empty cup from my listless hand and placed it aside. Then she put the document over her glorious pubic mound while swinging her other leg upwards, bracing the other high heel on the back of my chair, right over my shoulder. "You should sign here, right next to my signature, Phillip." I leaned unsteadily forward, slipping down between her cool porcelain thighs and scrawled my signature over the plush, uneven surface. Ivanna put the document along with her reading glasses aside and purred appreciatively, "Yes, there we are!" Then she commanded, "Now Philip, stand up!" I struggled to obey the command while maintaining my balance and began to fumble for my belt to release my rock hard cock. Finally, with my trousers slipping down around my ankles, Ivanna slipped one tender arm around my torso. I looked across to her sweet face, but I listlessly noted that her appearance had changed. Ivanna bared her shockingly long fangs and hissed menacingly. Before I knew what was happening, Ivanna grabbed me roughly by the hair on the back of my head and snapped my head back, exposing my throat. Then she quickly pulled me into her strong embrace. I felt Ivanna sink her needle sharp fangs into my neck while her green eyes glowed victoriously. It must have been a few moments later, but I managed to open one eye when I heard Jolene chide gently, "Ivanna, you didn't have to seduce him, I already know what kind of a man he is!" Jolene skipped lightly into Ivanna's arms. "Besides, it doesn't matter anymore, I belong to you now." Ivanna gloated, "Oh you must forgive me my darling, it was just a little 'dominance thing!'" Then some man came and tied a cape around Ivanna's shoulders, "Thank you Otis, I took special care not to get blood on my clothes this time..." Otis smiled and bowed, "You are kindness itself Madam." I pried my other eye open and saw that Jolene appeared to be wearing a cape as well. Jolene ignored me completely and giggled, "Ivanna, you were making me so wet while I was watching you through the two way mirror; I feel positively juicy!" Ivanna smiled seductively and reached her hand beneath Jolene's cape, "Well let's just find out how juicy you are!" Jolene cooed and shivered before Ivanna brought her hand back and licked her finger before offering Jolene a lick. "You'll give me my second gift tonight after the party, wont' you Ivanna, you promised! "Are you certain Jolene? It may not sound like a big step, but it is. The strengthening of your powers is no small matter." Then Ivanna explained what was involved in turning a human into a vampire. Jolene just smiled and pushed Ivanna till she sat back on the edge of the desk. Then Jolene sank to her knees and buried her face in Ivanna's pussy. Otis gallantly averted his eyes, "Ehem, Madam, may I ask if you will be taking Madam Jolene on her first hunt this evening?" Ivanna closed her eyes and began breathing deeply while she ran her fingers through Jolene's hair, "Oh yes, that's it. Yes. Yes... just like that Jolene... Oh yes...! Yes...!" Otis bowed slightly, "Very well then Madam. Madam Jolene, if I may ask you to be very careful. Blood stains are extremely difficult to take out..." I must have groaned aloud as I tried to call out to Jolene, because Otis and both women stopped ignoring me at that same moment. Ivanna wiped the blood from her lips with a tissue, "Jolene darling, I believe that Phillip would like to know exactly what has been going on during this past week while you were staying with me." Jolene turned and hissed as she bared her own diminutive fangs at me. Then, quick as a flash, she was on me. She wrenched my head the other way and sank her fangs into the other side of my neck. The last thing that I remember before I passed out was Ivanna commanding. "Otis, take our new blood thrall back to the castle. I want him in full uniform and in a crow's cage until my arrival at the party. He may enjoy the view, if he manages to regain consciousness again tonight." If only I had stayed on my couch and never agreed to come to this wretched place! The attractive young detective smiled reassuringly, "All right now, what was that about a second gift?" I searched my memory, "The first time that the vampire lets you drink her blood, you become a vampire, but it's only temporary. The second time strengthens the vampire's hold on you and makes you hers forever. The third time makes you an immortal vampire! Detective, you have to believe me. She's out there right now we have to stop her! Don't you see? The lesbian vampires are taking over the world; they're seducing our women and making slaves of all men!" "Phillip, please just continue with your story." It took a few minutes for me to calm down, "I woke up some time later. It seemed that I was suspended high above a room where there was a party going on. There were people who were dressed in leather outfits and masks who were sitting at a table, eating and drinking. There were other people who were watching two people who were wrestling naked, only whenever one person would score a point or make a take-down, the person at an advantage was given the right by the referee to have the person at a disadvantage perform a sexual act, you know, like a few seconds of sucking their dick or having their pussy fingered..." The detective looked up with a confused look on her face, "So men were wrestling with women and having sex?" "No it was men wrestling with men, only the men had breasts... or maybe it was two women who had dicks... I can't be sure, the heavy wooden candelabra below me kept getting in the way. Anyway, one or the other would finally be declared the winner by the referee. Then the loser had to submit to wearing a dog collar and was given as a prize to the winner. The losers had let themselves be led crawling around the room by the winners. Then they would be given by the winners to anybody else who might want to fuck them in their ass or their pussy or have their dick or their pussy sucked..." The detective looked at me like I was insane, "All right let's just keep talking about what was done to you." "Yes of course, ummm, well Ivanna and Jolene arrived and they gave their capes to that guy Otis. Ivanna seemed to ask about me because Otis pointed up at me. Then Ivanna said something to him and left with Jolene. The next thing that I knew I was down on the ground level and some guy who was wearing a leather mask started to make me drink something. I couldn't move and he kept pouring this liquid down my throat. Soon my head seemed to clear..." The detective interrupted, "Are you able to remember the face of the man named Otis yet? You've only been able to provide our artist with a description of the woman Ivanna so far." "No it was so quick and I really wasn't concentrating on him..." "...So are you saying that you may have been drugged while you were suspended above this orgy, or were you being drugged now by the man in the mask?" I shifted in the wooden chair and pulled the rough blanket around my naked body, "I don't know; it might have been from the loss of blood..." The detective prompted, "And this would be from when the woman Ivanna bit you on the neck?" I looked around at the three or four detectives that were perched on the other desks all looking at me with amused smiles on their faces. "No it was from both Ivanna and my wife Jolene biting me. They're both vampires! Ivanna seduced my wife then turned her into a vampire and then they lured me to an office and bit me and then I was taken to a place where other vampires..." "No, no, no, calm down... er..., Phillip, you're safe now. Just take a second, look around. Do you see any vampires here?" "No..." "Do you know where you are?" "Yes, I'm in the police precinct." "Well, see that's good. We're the police. We can protect you from the ah... lesbian vampires." There was a chorus of stifled chortles from the other detective while the young woman detective continued, "and since it's almost dawn you can get some sleep soon. You know, they can't get to you during the day. So why don't you just finish giving me your statement." I calmed down somewhat and tried to continue, "All right so I was put on a meat hook that slid along a track on the ceiling and the guy in the mask brought me to a bedroom." The detective interrupted gently, "All right Phillip, I'm going to have to ask you about the meat hook, how did they put you on the meat hook?" I tried not to listen as some of the detectives started to giggle, "I guess it must have been through the metal ring in my harness. I was wearing some kind of a body harness and my arms and ankles were tied together behind my back." "Oh good, see now that's important. Please continue... Phillip why are you looking at me like that? Countess Ivanna's Castle Ch. 02 (This story contains scenes of Lesbian and Straight Sex as well as some light bondage. As always, your comments and you votes are most welcomed.) * The telephone rang. Detective Kate Stevens remembered slipping off her sleeping mask and looking around her dark and squalid one bedroom apartment. Finally she managed to locate the telephone under her clothes from last night's shift. "Kate Stevens." "Detective Stevens, this is Detective Biondi, I'm following up on that note for us to check with the college security officers on the possible attack of a student on Halloween evening?" "Yes Biondi that was almost a month ago; what do you have?" "Campus security reports that they have no complaints of missing students or, any official complaints of alleged attacks over the night of Halloween." "So why are you calling me at home?" "Detective Stevens, they report that rumors of a vampire attack have been circulating among the male students ever since. The rumors say that a male student, a freshman, was attacked and left unconscious on a path in the woods. When they interviewed the student, he denied that any attack took place and that he simply passed out in the woods while he was on the way from one party to another." "I see, thank you Biondi. Would you leave a note for Detective Murphy that I'll look into this on my way in?" "I'm sorry Stevens; Murphy called out sick just a few minutes ago." "I see. Would you leave that note for Lieutenant Brown?" "Of course Stevens, have a good night." Kate hung up the phone and looked at the time, it was just after dark. She saw that she needed to hurry to make it over to the campus in time to speak to any officer who may have actually heard the boys talking. Kate quickly got dressed in a fresh blouse and a pair of slacks. She clipped her badge and her gun holster to her belt, tossed on her jacket and checked the time on her wristwatch before heading out the door and into the gathering evening. Kate arrived at the campus security office and found two rent-a-cops joking about the story. After identifying herself as a city police detective they quickly filled her in on the details. Kate thanked them and informed them that she wanted to speak to the student in question. The student, Matthew Foreman reluctantly confirmed that he thought that he might have been attacked by someone dressed as a vampire, but then again it might have been a dream; he was drunk at the time and it was Halloween night so it may have been just a very sexy and amorous naked woman dressed in a black cape. Stevens remembered thinking that someone was simply pulling her leg. She asked point blank if the student had been bitten by the woman. The student denied having any bite marks when he awoke that next morning, but he had made a drawing during the day after the incident. He made a photo copy on his scanning printer and gave it to detective Stevens. Detective Stevens immediately recognized the resemblance to the woman named Jolene whom had been implicated in such an attack during the interrogation of an escaped lunatic the month before. Stevens decided to stop at Jolene's apartment to make sure that she was all right, but the landlady told her that her tenants hadn't come home that night. Phillip hadn't been home since Halloween and the wife, Jolene only occasionally since then and always at night. Detective Stevens knew that the husband, Philip had signed himself in to the local hospital for psychiatric observation almost one month before. She also knew from having interviewed Phillip that he had been under the impression that his wife Jolene was romantically involved with the psychiatrist who was treating him, one Doctor Ivanna Basarab. Phillip became convinced that not only were Ivanna and Jolene lovers, but that they were lesbian vampires. Most remarkably, Phillip had escaped from the hospital's psychiatric wing, making claims that he had been bitten both Ivanna and Jolene. Further, Phillip had claimed that he was present while the two had spoken about Jolene attacking a student on Halloween night and drinking his blood. Although Phillip was found wandering through town naked, neither the arresting officers, nor Detective Stevens saw any evidence that he had been bitten, cut, scratched, or abused in any way. He was returned to the hospital's psychiatric wing and the case had been closed. Now Detective Kate Stevens found herself sitting outside of Doctor Ivanna Basarab's house. Kate sat briefly and wondered why she was looking into his old case any further. Kate looked at her watch and then her notes from both interviews that she have already conducted that evening, she thought to herself, "That's strange, my watch must be running slow..." She saw that either she had left her apartment only five minutes ago, or she had been mistaken about the time that she left her apartment to begin with. Suspicious, Kate began to cross the street to the front gate of the darkened castle as she thought back over her notes for anything that could clear up some of the questions that now began to haunt her mind: 'How could she be so mistaken about the time? How did she know what Jolene looked like? How did she know Doctor Basarab's home address? And why was she proceeding with this investigation alone, with so many little red flags popping up?' Kate arrived at the front door without having found any answers. Before she realized what she was doing, she rang the doorbell. A strange tension, not at all like fear, but more like a growing expectation and an excited sexual tension began to settle in the pit of Kate's stomach; her breathing began to get short; her head began to feel light. Just as Kate began to think that she might turn and scurry quickly to her car, the door opened. Kate looked up and caught her breath; she instantly felt her thighs tense and the most delicious fluttering in her tummy. Ivanna Basarab stood smiling coyly in the open doorway wearing a housecoat. "Detective Stevens, how wonderful of you to drop by; my friend Lieutenant Brown has told me so much about you!" Kate swallowed and consciously straightened her posture, "Countess Ivanna; I didn't know that you knew Lieutenant Brown..." Kate instantly stopped and wondered what would possess her to call Doctor Basarab a Countess. Ivanna continued to smile brightly, stepped out onto the doorstep and took Kate by the arm, "Oh Kate, why so formal? We have no need of formal titles here: this is hardly the old country. Please, call me Ivanna. But where are my manners, come. Please do come in Kate, my home is your home!" Kate fell into step and allowed herself to be led inside. "But Ivanna, where do you know Lieutenant Brown from." Ivanna closed the front door, "Oh, Otis is an old friend. We just shared a week in the Alps! It was such fun, just Otis, Margaret, Jolene and myself; it was very restful and quite romantic!" Kate felt a throb her knees turn to jelly as Ivanna took both of her hands in her hands, "Now, why don't you allow me to take your jacket... and tell me Kate, why you have come to me this evening?" "I have reason to believe that a student was attacked on Halloween night, I've come to interview Jolene..." Kate felt something warm and wet whooshing by her side. Then she felt the unmistakable feeling of a pair of hands, one pinning her right arm to the wall, the other gently taking her naked breast and cradling it. Kate heard a voice echo in her mind, "Come join us Kate." Kate felt the electric tingling as a warm wet pair of lips closed firmly around her hard nipple. Ivanna laughed with the friendly and inviting sound of tinkling of bells in the wind. "You say that each night that you have come to me for this entire week. Now tell me Kate, why do you come to me this evening?" Kate felt the tingling in her breast increase. She looked down and saw that she was naked. A woman with long black hair was lovingly suckling on her right breast. "It's about the lesbian vampires..." Suddenly Kate felt a whooshing to her left. Kate heard the haunting voice echo in her mind again, "Come join us Kate!" She felt her left arm being gently pinned to the wall and felt the warm soft lips close around her left nipple. Kate moaned and squirmed delightedly as more tingling radiated out from both of her breasts, down into her tummy and up into her throat. Ivanna smiled and her beautiful green eyes glowed warmly, "What were you were about to say, Kate?" Suddenly Kate remembered everything: she had been here for the past week, ever since she first got the call about the attack at the campus! Kate remembered being greeted at the door by a beautiful Asian woman with long black hair and deep, enchanting brown almond eyes. The woman had led her to an empty bedroom and seduced her, loving her with such tenderness that it took Kate's breath away even now. Then the beautiful Asian woman, with the hauntingly beautiful eyes and the pale cinnamon colored skin had bitten her on the neck. Suddenly, Kate felt the delicious, warm whooshing between her naked thighs. She willingly parted her legs and threw her head back as she felt a hot tongue licking between the parted lips of her shaved pussy, "I..., I..., I'm so afraid, I can't say it!" Kate felt the hands that had been pinning her arms to the wall move to lovingly cup her breasts and to caress and lightly pinch her nipples, while the hot tongue plunged deep into her crevasse, teasing her from her vagina all the way up to her erect clitoris. Kate felt her orgasm build and slipped one thigh upward to rest on the shoulder of her tormentor while she desperately declared, "I want to say it, but I'm so afraid!" The voice in Kate's mind urged, "Say that you will join us Kate my love, my darling. Say it and give yourself to me. Say it so that I may give myself to you and be yours forever!" Kate desperately tried to fight off the irresistible orgasm and to remember the hauntingly beautiful Asian woman's name. She remembered the woman's silky smooth black hair, her soft fragrant skin, her tender caresses and her soft loving kisses. Kate felt the unseen hands slide down her body to rest on her hips. Then she gasped delightedly as the hot tongue plunged upward, claiming the deepest parts of her vagina. Kate shivered as she felt soft lips sucking her pussy lips and a nose nuzzling her clit playfully. Kate shuddered uncontrollably as she felt her orgasm crash over her and she shouted out loud, "I am yours Mai-Ly, I want to be yours forever! Mai-Ly my love, take me and make me yours I beg you." Mai-Li rematerialized fully from the night mist that she had been and stood up. She took Kate tenderly into her arms and held her gently. "No more stressing Kate! I give myself to you and I take you to be mine!" With that, Mai-Ly bared her long fangs and tenderly sank them into Kate's exposed neck as Kate clung panting and shuddering in Mai-Ly's arms. Ivanna calmly ran a fingernail over her wrist and cut open several veins. Then she held it up to Kate's lips for her to drink her first gift, while the rest of the coven rematerialized out of the night mists that they had been. Soon, Kate swooned from the draining of her life's blood, in Mai-Ly's arms. Four thralls quickly came forward and took Kate's nearly lifeless body and reverently carried her away to Mai-Ly's bedroom. Ivanna smiled sadly at Mai-Ly and offered her a drink from her wrist. Mai-Ly tucked her fangs away behind her teeth took Ivanna's wrist to suckle, like a new born vampire. Ivanna waited for a few moments, "Have you chosen a range from those that Queen Margot has offered for your own Mai-Ly? Mai-Ly licked Ivanna's wrist, until the deep wound had closed completely. "I have Countess Ivanna. It will be the one that you have suggested to me." Ivanna smiled, "Then in the name of our Queen Margot, I make you Countess Mai-Ly. Choose one sister from among my coven and one thrall to help you to start your new coven." Countess Mai-Ly curtsied, "I choose our sister Ellen and thrall Jinks." Ivanna caressed Mai-Ly's face tenderly, "Both are fine choices, my daughter Mai-Ly. Go now. Your bride Kate will awaken soon. Lay with her and be sure that your lovely face is the first face that she sees. Then allow her to feed lightly on Jinks until she is ready to be taught how to control her new powers, so that she may begin to hunt for herself." Mai-Li curtsied once again, before she came to Ivanna and kissed her deeply. Each of the sisters came in turn and curtsied before Countess Ivanna and then before Countess Mai-Ly before kissing her. All of the sisters except Jolene, turned into the night mists, or into bats, or mice, to begin their night hunts. Jolene remained quiet for a few moments as her former rival Mai-Ly left the room. "Was it like that with me Ivanna?" Ivanna smiled proudly, "You were a good deal less hesitant Jolene. It is how I knew that you would be my new bride. Only Mai-Ly before you was so eager to give up her old life and to join me. Now I shall have to make a new place at my table for Countess Mai-Ly, for when she comes to attend our parties." Jolene looked up, "I have felt intimidated in Mai-Ly's presence. I was sure that she was jealous of me taking her Queen..." Ivanna flicked a finger across the bridge of Jolene's nose and glowered, "That would be Countess Mai-Ly! And while I am Countess, you will not call me 'Queen,' unless we are in our bed together. It would not do for me to be seen as grasping above my station, my little one!" Chastised, Jolene curtsied, "Yes, please forgive me, my Countess." Ivanna smiled benevolently, "Mai-Ly has been more than compensated for the loss of her status here. And when she comes to visit for the next party she may choose to have you serve her in her bed, but I think that for my sake, she will be kind to you. Mai-Ly is a wonderful lover Jolene, I taught her well from the time that I first took her for my bride many years ago! Now Jolene, think ahead to your receiving my third gift. You must provide a victim as your first kill for the feast. It will be at mid-winter." Jolene bristled, "I know one that I would offer; that one who dared to think that he could escape his contract with you! If I could just find him, I would offer him as the holocaust for the feast!" Ivanna smiled and hugged Jolene warmly, "We will find him my love, be sure of that. I will give you his contract and then you will decide. Also I have a special task for you. Since we will be losing Jinks' services, I will ask for you to recruit a new blood thrall after your hunt tonight." Jolene smiled, "I think that I know the perfect candidate! After hearing from Kate how he still pines for me and that he may have been talking, I would think that Matthew could be turned from a possible liability into an eager convert." Ivanna caressed her bride's face, "We think exactly alike my little one. You have gotten much better at covering your tracks in these last few weeks. Remember, you can always reach into his mind and convince him that it was just a dream. But, I will leave it completely up to you. Remember, they always return to the scene of their first seduction, both hoping and dreading the return of their mistress; now my darling, away to your nightly hunt!" Jolene kissed Ivanna then turned into a night mist and flew out of the open window. Otis stepped forward and bared his neck, "Well done madam, it has all gone as you planned." Ivanna smiled victoriously, "No thank you, not tonight Otis darling, you will need to go to work at the precinct and make the appropriate transfers for Mistress Kate and for Jinks. Instead, bring me the last bag of Phillip's blood from the refrigerator. With Jolene's senses nearly at their fullest, we shouldn't have his contributions lying about the castle anymore." "Yes madam." Ivanna took off her housecoat and let her clitoris grow to its fully erect, eight inch length before letting it go flaccid, "...and Otis, before you go, send Murphy and four thralls for my wrestling practice. I'm feeling especially frisky tonight!" Jolene sat silently in the tree top and waited, soon she felt his approach. One man, the man was feeling deserted and lonely. The man was looking for something, but had almost given up hope of ever finding it again. Jolene remembered how she had approached him the last time and weighed out duplicating the same seduction. She remembered how she surprised him in his Halloween costume of the Tin man, from the Wizard of Oz. First he felt shock, as she appeared naked before him. Then he felt lust after she reached into his mind and commanded him to desire to her. His lust turned to confusion as she jumped on him. Then when she bit him, he felt a moment of panic. As Jolene continued to suck his blood, he felt the hopelessness of one who feels his life continuing to slip away from him, despite his impotent desire to struggle on. She knew to stop when she felt his feeling of resignation to death. Jolene had commanded him to sleep, to wake up in the morning and only wonder what happened to him, nothing more. The completely healed puncture marks on his neck would provide no evidence of any attack. Most importantly for the coven, there would be no dead body for the police to start to wonder about. But something had gone wrong. Jolene's victim still remembered her face and had even made drawings of her as she appeared just before springing to the attack. Then he provided these to a police Detective. Never mind that the police were now taken care of, this could have been a costly blunder! Finally Jolene saw him below and instantly recognized him. Even without his ridiculous costume, the sound of his heartbeat and the rush of his blood was unmistakable. Jolene looked and admired her victim for a moment. He was a handsome and strong looking man even from this distance. Jolene decided that the direct approach was the best in this situation. She slipped down the tree as a night mist and rematerialized in a shadow at the base of the same tree that she had used on Halloween night. The man stopped dead in his tracks as Jolene stepped out of the shadows and into the moonlight. Jolene looked into her victim's eyes and hesitated for just a moment, surprised by the feeling that this man was so much more than she had expected! Jolene quickly swept both edges of her cape upwards, dramatically revealing her glorious naked body in the small sliver of moonlight. The cold light caressed her form, revealing her pert breasts above her slightly rounded tummy. Jolene waggled her full hips seductively and willed her victim to desire her again. Jolene felt Matthew's sense of disbelief then his sense of gratitude that she had returned for him. Then she felt her spell taking hold and his natural male weaknesses turning to lust again. Jolene smiled in a friendly manner. "You have been desiring me Matthew. I like a man who is persistent. This sets you apart from the others." Jolene dropped the edges of her cape and let them fall behind her shoulders, "How old are you now Matthew?" Matthew marveled openly at the vision before him, "Twenty-seven." This caught Jolene by surprise, "You're a little old to be a college boy, aren't you Matthew?" "Oh yeah, I did eight years in the army. But, I'm back now working for my Electrical Engineering degree." Jolene dissolved into a night mist, rematerializing only inches in front Matthew and tried to take back the initiative, "Well then, you're old enough to make decisions for yourself Matthew. My sisters and I need you, I want for you to join us Matthew. You will be free to pursue your life here at the college and your career, during the day. But in the evening you will belong to me. You may come serve us, protect us and feed us. Matthew, by accepting, you will be mine forever." Countess Ivanna's Castle Ch. 02 Matthew blinked, not quite believing what he thought that he just saw. He immediately smelled the aroma of fresh cut wild flowers and stammered, "...And what do I get?" Jolene caressed Matthew's lips with her lips, "You get membership in a very exclusive club of men. They are very powerful men, men who all look after each other, men who take an interest in advancing each other's careers; men who serve us in very special ways." "I don't care about what other men can do for me..." Jolene interrupted, "I could take you right now and do with you whatever I might want; this is what you came here for tonight, isn't it Matthew?" Matthew felt his head swim as he nodded his head. Jolene continued, "Instead, I am giving you the choice to become my servant. Serve me and become one of the 'cowboys,' or refuse me and remain one of the 'cattle.' The choice is yours, you must make your choice right now; I will not return to ask you again." Matthew hesitated for only a moment, "I don't know anything about you. I don't even know your name. But you already know what my answer is, don't you?" Jolene smiled and reached up to curl her fingers into the hair at the back of Matthew's head then used her superior vampire strength to force him to kneel down. Matthew looked up, "I only know that somehow, I can't live without you anymore." Jolene grinned pressing his face into her vulva. "Yes, I already knew all of that Matthew. You may call me 'Mistress.' Now drink Matthew, drink and be mine!" Jolene felt Matthew timidly lick her pussy. Matthew tasted a sweet floral nectar, it immediately reminded him of a fragrant and relaxing herbal tea. Jolene felt Matthew suddenly grow bolder as he pressed his face into her pussy and nuzzled her. Matthew cupped both of her butt cheeks and began to suck her pussy lips into his mouth. Jolene shuddered with the thrill of absolute power over her first slave. She released a stream of her juices into her servant's eager mouth. Soon Matthew felt dizzy, but greedily continued to drink and slurp his Mistresses' pussy. As Matthew groggily felt the trickle of delicious ambrosia end, he licked upwards to suck on his Mistress' clitoris. Jolene felt her convert take her erect nub between his lips before she let her clitoris grow to its full six inches. Jolene felt her slave continue to suck her quickly growing cock. Then the Mistress took her willing slave by the hair on the both sides of his head and began to thrust her cock deep into his mouth over and over again. Soon Jolene felt an incredible orgasm about to explode over her. She took her cock out of her slave's mouth and pressed his face lower, back onto her hot pussy. She continued to grind his face into her pussy until she couldn't stop her orgasm from nearly knocking her over. Jolene groaned and felt her slave once again sucking her cum into his waiting mouth. Jolene smiled victoriously; she knew that she had claimed him as her slave forever. Jolene threw her slave to the ground and opened his pants. She fished his rock hard cock out through the slit in his shorts. She held his throbbing member in her hand and admired for a moment, her slave was impressively endowed with a seven inch cock, beautiful and thick. Jolene quickly impaled herself and began to rock back and forth. "Tell me slave, to whom do you belong?" Matthew groaned as the hot, velvety smooth pussy clenched his cock tight, "I belong to you Mistress!" Jolene continued her interrogation, "Whom do you serve, slave?" Matthew nearly passed out from the pain as the incredibly tight pussy choked his cock. His cock and balls began to spasm but he couldn't cum. "I serve you Mistress!" Delighted, Jolene tested further, "When will you be allowed to cum, slave?" Matthew panted and groaned again, "Only when you allow me to cum, Mistress!" Jolene smiled in spite of herself and leaned down to kiss Matthew, "Very good slave, you learn quickly! You may cum for me now." "Matthew groaned, "Thank you Mistress. This is a little like basic training back at boot camp!" Jolene began sliding up and down on the glorious cock. Matthew gamely began to answer by making powerful upward thrusts, matching his Mistress' time perfectly. Jolene thought, from the expression on her slave's face that he might die of pleasure and pain. Then she released her grip on his cock and sank all the way down, allowing him to shoot his cum deep into her pussy. Matthew groaned loudly and convulsed violently. Jolene relished the warm rush deep inside of her for a moment until her exhausted slave began to caress her thighs and her belly. "Oh yes, this will be SO much better than any Boot Camp and I will not be like any Drill Sergeant that you ever had slave!" Jolene suddenly stood up, "Now slave, you will go back to your room and destroy all of the pictures that you have made of me. You will tell everyone that you told about me, that what you told them was a lie, a little Halloween prank that you were playing on them. Friends and family don't matter anymore. Only I matter and the new friends that I will introduce you to. I will send a man to pick you up tomorrow evening. You will be ready. Then we will continue your training." With that Jolene dissolved into a night mist and was gone. Jolene was the last to return to the castle and gave her cape to the door warden before instructing him what was to be done the next evening. She tied her house coat loosely and found Ivanna sitting, talking with Mai-Ly in the dining hall, both had their housecoats untied and open. Jolene waited at the door for the two countesses to finish their discussion. Soon, Mai-Ly stood and embraced Ivanna then kissed her. Mai-Ly turned to walk back to her room for the day while retying her housecoat and saw Jolene waiting just outside in the hallway. As Countess Mai-Ly passed through the door, Jolene curtsied. Instead of simply passing by her inferior and her successor, Mai-Lee stopped and embraced Jolene warmly. Mai-Ly whispered into Jolene's ear, "Take care of our Countess, Jolene. For the sake of the love that I have felt for her for all of these years and for the sake of the love that you will learn to feel; be true to her and support her always. There will be plenty of pitfalls that you will be presented along the way; learn well, step carefully. Never embarrass or betray her for your own gain and you will go far; otherwise, you will have me to deal with. That is a promise!" Then Mai-Ly kissed Jolene and smiled at her before passing on to the hallway that led to her room and her sleeping bride. Jolene entered the dining hall and Ivanna looked up and smiled brightly. Instead of letting Jolene go through the customary curtsy and greetings, Ivanna waved for her to come and give her a warm hug. Jolene opened her housecoat then kissed Ivanna passionately. Jolene wiggled impetuously, brushing her breasts and her tummy lightly against Ivanna's while slipping her hands under her mistress' housecoat and around to her back, one possessively on Ivanna's rump and the other in supplication, kneading the muscles of her lover's back. Ivanna slid her hands down Jolene's body to rest on her full hips, while she enjoyed her bride's tender caresses. "So tell me my little one, how did your rendezvous go?" Jolene smiled a devilish smile, "It went perfectly! I did just as you did to Murphy. I left word to have Otis pick him up and bring him here tonight. Matthew is ours for all of eternity!" Ivanna looked at Jolene for a moment with a strange look on her face. Then she smiled, "Remember my love, it is a special moment when a new vampire takes her first slave. I've never quite figured out why, but there is a special bond that... well the first one can claim your heart as no other can." Jolene pulled back slightly, "You do love me Ivanna!" Ivanna pursed her lips, brushed a lock of Jolene's long blond hair back behind her shoulder and hedged, "I simply hadn't realized how much I would enjoy watching you grow my little mouse!" Jolene pouted impatiently and settled her hands on Ivanna's bare hips, "You know exactly what I mean!" Ivanna gently drew Jolene closer until their breasts and tummies touched again. Ivanna admitted, "It's just that you said that you belong to me. In all of my time Jolene, I have taken hundreds, thousands, but never has anybody come to me and given herself to me so completely before. I can't begin to tell you what you mean to me." Jolene turned her face upward and brushed her ruby lips tenderly over Ivanna's quivering lips, "I will be yours for all of eternity, if only you will have me my love!" Ivanna felt her heart swell and couldn't stop her hopeful smile. Jolene felt Ivanna's lips smiling as much as she saw her emotion betraying her from her eyes. Jolene pulled back slightly with a look of wonderment on her lovely face, "You do love me!" Ivanna thought that she may have even blushed like the girl that she once was, but still she tried to hide the depth of her feelings behind a flippant admission, "Of course I love you my poppet! How could I not? From the moment that you dragged you sorry ass into my office I have been planning this seduction. I have added you to my coven and have saddled myself with that poor excuse for a widowed husband to be my blood thrall. And now that I have all that I might fancy in the moment, I will find him again so that I can torture him by taking your body right in front of him, before I discard you both and move on to my next conquest!" Jolene's mouth fell open and her twinkling blue eyes widened in accusation, "You do not lie as well as you might think that you do Ivanna. I can feel it! I feel how your dear heart pounds within your breast when it answers the longing of my own poor small and empty heart! I feel how your arms tremble when you caress me so gently even though you have the power to crush me like a used paper cup. I feel you hold me as though I might break from the rush of passion that is ours in each kiss, in each caress, in each embrace! Your kiss makes me sigh with desire for you. You gently teach my body to crave yours with such longing that I could scream my love for you all day and all night long. I never felt so wanted for even a moment in my former life, only when I died in your arms on that first night did I awaken. I beg you Ivanna: I cannot exist for another moment if you do not love me. My aching heart demands that you tell me now, or that you extinguish my heart like the false and feeble little flame that you now control and toy with so utterly!" Ivanna looked for a long moment into the watery eyes and the quivering lips of her conqueror, "Oh drat your emerging vampire senses! I can only imagine how you will make me dance and sing your praises when your powers are fully developed! Yes I love you Jolene. You have awakened my heart for the first and the only time in all of my existence. I love you as I have never loved anyone before. I am yours forever my one, my Jolene!" Ivanna felt her heart ache in complete desolation for a silent eternity as Jolene's face registered first shock, then joy, then a modest flash of triumph. Ivanna's heart began to take flight when she saw Jolene's lovely eyes widened more... Then Ivanna felt her heart scorched as if by the sun as those sparkling blue diamonds grew as sharp as fangs to pierce her heart while she waited breathless for the least little thing that Jolene might say to answer her true admission. Jolene smiled and began to jump excitedly in Ivanna's arms, "You love me! You love me! You love me! My Queen, my goddess, my Ivanna; you love me!" Jolene impetuously wrapped Ivanna up in her arms and covered her mouth with her strong and passionate kisses, only to accidentally pierce Ivanna's lip with one of her fangs. In truth, Ivanna hardly noticed the accidental little pricking, but Jolean appeared to be mortified when she tasted blood in her mouth. Ivanna licked her punctured lip while Jolene cowered preciously and apologetically in Ivanna's arms. Ivanna flicked a finger smartly across the bridge of Jolene's nose. "You must always remember to keep those dear little fangs of yours tucked safely away my dear. Do not lose control of your powers no matter how joyous the moment! Then Ivanna smiled reassuringly, "There you see my pet? All better now. No harm done at all. And look, it only takes a few moments for the saliva to heal the wound completely. Now come darling, it is nearly daylight. Let me see if you can continue to brag to me of your conquest, while I devour you in our bed! When we awaken, then we will begin to test this new slave of ours." Countess Ivanna's Castle Phillip, you don't think that I'm one of them do you? Phillip I want you to look at my teeth... See Phillip? No fangs. I promise you, I'm not one of them. And besides if I were a lesbian vampire why would I surround myself with these immature MALE IDIOTS? But let me assure you Phillip: every one of them is just another one of our city's finest who wants to help you. See here is Detective Jenkins. He went to your apartment and spoke with your wife. Jolene is safe and sound and very worried about you. And here is my partner, Detective Murphy. He has already been in touch with your doctor to make sure that we can send you right over to have a complete physical right after we finish with this interview. Of course, we will wait until daylight so that you feel more comfortable. Now why don't you continue with your story so that I can start to investigate right away?" "All right it's just that I was..." "Yes I know Phillip, you were looking at my boobs. Being the only female Detective on the night shift, I've gotten used to it. But I promise you I won't be taking my clothes off and I won't be trying to seduce you or anybody else. Now please continue." "All right Detective Stevens. I'm sorry about the boob thing, I guess that maybe I..." "Don't worry Phillip, as I said I'm used to it. Now please continue, I believe that you were being brought to a bedroom?" "Yes, it was HER bedroom..." "Do you mean Jolene's bedroom?" "No. It was Ivanna's bedroom. They just left me hanging there and closed the door while I watched my wife and Ivanna in bed together. They were licking each other's pussies and laughing about some guy that Jolene had just attacked. She had seduced some college guy and sucked his blood and then just left him laying there on a dirt path through the woods. They didn't say where, they just kept on licking each other's pussies and laughing as they made each other cum over and over again." Suddenly all of the guys around me started to laugh and snigger. Detective Stevens snapped, "Quiet! Can't you see that this man has been through a traumatic experience? This isn't some 'No-Man's-Land' porn movie! Now, please continue Phillip." "Well, I started to feel electric shocks all over my body. They must have heard the sounds because they turned to look me and laughed at me. Ivanna got up and turned me so that I could look at myself in a mirror, but when I looked, I couldn't see her in the mirror and she was standing right next to me! I was dressed in some kind of leather outfit with a metal basket around my cock and balls, it seemed like every time that I got excited, my cock would trigger something in the basket that would give me electric shocks. Then there was the body harness and a hood that covered half of my face, just like the other guy!" "All right Phillip, that other guy. Did you see anything that could help us to identify him, did you hear a name?" "No he was wearing the mask, he was the guy who put me on the meat hook and took me to the room. Wait, wait... they called him 'Jinks.'" Detective Murphy interrupted sniggering to Detective Jenkins, "So, did this guy Jinks have the same leather outfit with an electric cock basket?" Jenkins gave Murphy a shove before Detective Stevens interrupted them, "If you two can't be quiet you should take it outside! Now please continue Phillip." "I remember Ivanna smiling right next to me as Jolene just lay in her bed smiling at me. I turned to Ivanna and I told her that I was going to find a way to escape. I would take my wife back. I told her over and over that Jolene was mine. I told her that I would find a way to take my woman back! Ivanna grabbed my face in her hands and made me look right at her face. She wasn't angry, she was icy calm and she said: 'How easy it is for you to say: 'Jolene is mine. I will take back what is mine.' But you are now a slave; you have nothing except the time that Jolene has begged for me to grant you. You would be wise to keep your mouth shut and then to slink away if I let you. Always remember slave: you are nothing more than a bundle of straw, wrapped in a piece of paper and standing before an inferno... Your only hope is for the wind to change!' Then Ivanna turned and took Jolene's hands in hers and said: 'Yet how hard it is to think of the eternities that I have spent holding you in my arms Jolene, while you slept, whispering to the cruel day with a trembling voice: 'I am yours Jolene!' Holding my breath and fearing to hear you whisper back 'I am yours Ivanna' or worse yet, to hear only my own words echo in my empty heart through the countless eternities to come.' Jolene threw herself into Ivanna's arms and kissed her passionately for a long time. Finally Jolene looked right into Ivanna's eyes and declared: 'I am yours Ivanna. I have been yours since the moment that I first saw you. I will be yours for all of our eternities to come. No one and nothing will ever make me stop loving you!'" Ivanna smiled, she may have even blushed a little. "Tonight my one and only, my Jolene, you will have your second gift!" Then she pulled a cord and a moment later the door to the bedroom opened. Ivanna commanded: 'Gag this slave and take it away. It will need its rest for when my love Jolene awakens and needs to feed!" I was gagged and pushed along until I came to a place like a stable. I was taken off of the meat hook and tossed onto a pile of straw. Then they untied my hands and feet and locked the door. But I found a hole that someone had dug under the wall. It was hidden under the pile of straw. I had to take off my leather suit and harness, but I was able to fit through the hole and I crawled out." "Thank you Phillip. I think that we have everything that we need for now. Detective Jenkins and Detective Lee will take you to be seen by your doctor. If I have any more questions, I will contact you." I nodded and wiped my face with the blanket to hide my tears. Detective Stevens gave my arm an encouraging squeeze before saying: "Detective Murphy, you're with me." Detective Stevens led her partner to Lieutenant Brown's office. "Lieutenant? Here's the last one of the night and what a lulu; he thinks that lesbian vampires are taking over the world!" The lieutenant quickly looked at the paperwork, "And you're satisfied that there is nothing here that needs further looking into?" "No. He's as crazy as a bedbug! We spoke to his wife and she tells us that he's been having trouble for the last few weeks. She took him to see a shrink, a Doctor Ivanna Basarab..." The Lieutenant continued to read the report and nodded, "So now he thinks that this doctor is a vampire?" Stevens gave a little chuckle, "Yeah, and get this: he also states that the doctor is turning his wife into a lesbian vampire. Apparently he thinks that the good doctor and the wife are already madly in love and are ready to drain him of his blood so that she can become immortal! We contacted the doctor and she provided us with the papers that he signed in the wife's presence to have himself committed for observation. Apparently he escaped from the hospital late last night. I have Jenkins and Lee transporting him back now." "Well Kate, Halloween night really brings out the loonies! Say Kate, are you sure that you don't want to look into this a bit further, maybe do a little undercover to check out the good doctor?" Detective Stevens gave the Lieutenant a bland look, "Just think of the merry mayhem that I'd have to put with if I became the detective who went undercover to crack the case of the lesbian vampire ring!" The three had a good laugh before the Lieutenant noted, "Well, good work on this one Kate. We'll ask the day crew to call around to the college and the hospital to see if any college boys were attacked and bitten last night. Otherwise I guess that this is all wrapped up; just file it away before you go." "Sure, I'll see you tonight Lieutenant." "Sure thing Kate, Murphy; see you tonight." The Lieutenant waited until the day crew came on and then went out to the parking lot. He looked around carefully before getting into the back of the limo with the dark tinted windows. "Well you certainly know how to throw a party Madam Ivanna!" Ivanna smiled, "Yes it did go rather well. It is a pity that you had to leave early to return to work tonight Otis, things really got wild after you left! Margaret had a wonderful time." Lieutenant Otis Brown smiled back, "You knew that he would escape didn't you?" "Of course darling! This way Jolene will not have to face the reminder of the life that she left behind for the next four years and my hands are clean! I'm having the dear boy sedated as soon as Jinks delivers him to the hospital, so that he can rest up for the beginning of his treatments tonight." Otis nodded, "And how is Madam Jolene?" "Jolene is recovering from receiving my second gift last night. She will need to sleep for a few days, but I expect that she will recover well and be absolutely famished. I'll bring her some 'take out.' Then after things here are in hand, we may fly off to Switzerland for a much needed rest." "Ah yes, the beginning of the tourist season. Night skiing, hot tub parties... perhaps Margaret and I can join the two of you there?" "Jolene and I would just love to have the two of you stay at the chalet with us! Do call as soon as you are ready to come out. Oh and Otis, be sure that Margaret packs her strap-on, I missed my chance to wrestle with her at the party." Otis took Ivanna's hand and kissed her respectfully, "Until then Madam Ivanna."