Hello, and thank you so much for joining me again. It is the Knightly Pleasures podcast, episode number 20. I am your host, The Grey Knight, and you'll notice I didn't add the second part there about how the stories are mine, because tonight, a little bit of an experiment.

The first piece tonight will not actually have been written just performed by me.

It is written by a man named Mack Sebastian, and we're actually going to hear a chapter from the middle of one of his books, Heidi Corrupted.

If you enjoy it, once again, his name is Mack Sebastian.

And it was a lot of fun to read somebody

else's stuff like this and fit it into the podcast. This is once again an excerpt from chapter

10 of the book Heidi Corrupted, and I hope you enjoy.

I opened the door, and there she was, looking as she had when I'd left her, stunning,

in her black and white dress, although perhaps her hair was a touch disheveled. Her coat seemed

awfully thin considering the temperature outside. I said, stepping back to invite her in,

Jesus, you must be freezing. The taxi was warm. She said, then smiled. And I think I'm buzzing

so much I don't notice. So you enjoyed it then? I asked.

You like him.

Uh-huh.

I led her into the living room, not quite knowing what to do now that she was here.

If I possessed her, I could do anything I wanted with her.

But it felt strange to me, and I didn't know how she felt about the arrangement after betting her new man.

"'You could have stayed with him,' I said, "'if you wanted.'

"'You wanted me to sleep with him, and then come see you,' she said, sitting on the couch.

"'But if you liked him.

She shook her head.

I have his number.

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