<div align="center">(https://i.imgur.com/hagDps9.png)</div><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/qCugVbF.png) <br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><div align="center"><strong> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Dianne du Monde</span> </strong> <span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span><div align="center">_____<br/><strong>Dominatrix of the World<br/>Queen of Diamonds</strong></div></div></div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;">“Don’t miss the turn.”  My cabbie nods as he already knows our destinations.<br/></span><div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/cfWA5ua.png)</div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;">Sharing a secret (he should think): “Adam, you shall now know that one of my very greatest pleasures is diamonds.”  I pause, take his chin by my finger and turn it so he looks into my eyes, mine unblinking.   I take out my phone and show my next ‘acquisition’.  “When we turn the corner, there will be a jewelry store.  In that store there will be a ring.  My ring.  I want you to, the polite word is purloin it.  It’s nothing major but it would so show me how suited you are to be in this life of . . . mine.” <br/><br/>“It will give me great pleasure when you slip it onto my finger.” <br/><br/>The cab stops outside the store.  “We’ll wait for you.” <br/></span>