Next, I want you to dig all that crap of Lindeman's out of the wastebasket and go through it a lot more seriously. There may be pay dirt somewhere els...e in all those school board packets. Anything that strikes you as vaguely interesting, bring to me." I was going to do that, anyway. I just hadn't gotten to it yet." Get started on it," he smiled. "And then I want you on the Internet and do your best to get background on this deal in Byzantium, just for a second look, but look around some of those. ..and with another woman...to find it had been going on so long and I never knew.’ To be honest I had had an inkling that my mother was fucking around for a while, even suspecting it was with the woman she left him for, a work colleague, but it still came as a shock. What probably made things worse tonight, was that Mum had been at the house today to collect her stuff. ‘That smug bitch was probably sat in the car thinking how clever she was to have won her from me...’ I hugged him to me and. He explained that the composition he had in mind called for Maria to sit on a chair or stool, with Ms. Alsover and Timothy standing behind her. He had not fully worked out the rest of the pose yet, but suggested they started by getting a chair from the dining room for Maria to sit on.Maria sat down as she was asked, and in her unabashed nature opened her legs widely, provocatively exposing her dark, swollen mound.Mr. Oliver did not seem to notice. He placed one of Ms. Alsover's hands on Maria's. There was something else going on, and he knew he'd just have to wait and see.The ritual was quiet and contemplative. People chose to wear robes for this, even though the evening was still warm enough to go skyclad. It was odd that, for the first time since they'd started the Circle, there was no sexual undertone to it at all. Considering it was the end of the year for them and that the focus was on ancestors who had passed on, the mood wasn't much of a surprise. The other oddity was that Lea.