Mastering Charlotte
"We are going to play a game, Charlotte, and you are the prize. You will shuffle and deal the cards. You will give each of us a card. When it is time for a new… um… participant, you will call a card. The holder of that card takes a turn."
Still looking bemused, she looks at the cards, then shuffles them before, face down, passes one to each of us....
.... And she thinks I didn't see her small sleight of hand there....
.... Wonder where she learned how to do that....?
The others don't appear to have noticed.
"Sit up, Charlotte," orders James.
His voice has the snap of authority and she scrabbles to obey him....
.... Her Master....
As she sits on the edge of the bed, James produces a blindfold
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