Nodding as I listened to her describe her ‘recruitment’ to the Casino—filing away the fact that she somehow managed to get her debt paid for future review with her files, given such a thing was extremely rare—I couldn’t help but smile at her mention of Jenny.<br/><br/><strong>“Yes, I knew and respected the woman greatly,” </strong>I murmured, briefly wondering what she was doing now, and hoping she was well.<strong>“And she clearly did good work.”<br/></strong><br/>Jaclyn goes on to deny seeing any significance into using π, though her sudden recollection of the date was more telling than it may have appeared to her. Not only did it confirm the fact that the person responsible was of a scientific, mathematical or OCD frame of mind, it also signalled they were more probably American, or educated in America, rather than places such as my home country—England—who put the day before the month.<br/><br/>Then we came onto the matter of the terms of the blackmail.<br/><br/><strong>“So, to summarise what you are telling me, in order to stop the cyber attack on your bank, and obtain a document that proved a fraud you committed—both of which could have been neutralised in different ways—you agreed, seemingly willingly and with little thought, to commit a crime by way of smuggling, and humiliate yourself by reverting back to a night of the same submissive, slutty lifestyle that you had experienced in Lacy, and escaped from, by way of paying off your debt?”</strong><br/><br/>To say old habits died hard was an understatement, and in the case of the psyche, I was well aware of the fact that, once a person learnt of their enjoyment of something—even if it consciously abhorred it—they would feel a need to sate it once in a while, no matter how they felt.<br/><br/>Based on what I had learnt so far, I was wondering if it was not some of those triggers that du Monde had set off inside of Jaclyn, in order to manipulate her so easily.<br/><br/><strong>“Tell me about that night more, and how you felt about doing that for her and obeying her wishes to act the slut on her behalf.”</strong><br/>