Michelle remained still, her back on fire, wondering why Alice had bade her stay after evening prayers. Normally Michelle went to wait on the hetaerae... at table, and then after a hasty meal would be dismissed to her room, to wait there until Alice came to heal her so that she could sleep. She heard footsteps, and knew that Alice must have stepped down from her dias. Michelle pressed herself even harder against the cool marble floor. She tried to remain still as Alice approached, but her body’s. "I'm going for a bath," Eddie said heading towards the en-suite toilet."Ok don't be long we've to be seated by eight thirty and its gone sevennow," I responded as the door to the bathroom closed.Less than an hour later we were both dressed and ready to go, I hadbought a red spaghetti strap dress the dress had silk bodice top quitetight but not too revealing moving down to a fuller cotton body with aflared skirt effect, this was topped of with red 41/2 inch heeledstrappy sandals with thin laces. He had always been a great conversationalist, and I was taking a little more time these days to smell the roses. I was not so one-track minded about my job anymore. There were other things in life. Barry had only added to the storehouse of his knowledge in all these years, and held me spellbound with his lectures on history, geography, the etymology of language, art, science—you name it, and he had studied it! What a treasury of information and insight he had become. I told him about Darian,. I loved my little Charlotte, and was there in the birthing room when she was delivered. I loved Donna as well.In fact, I love all my companions, but I wasn’t in love with most of them. I tried to divide my time evenly between them while still showing Donna that special affection I knew all new mothers needed. It seems funny to me now that, when the Char first awarded me twenty-two companions, the only thing I could think of was “OH BOY, nightly orgies” but, although I still enjoyed sex, I found.