..” After a few moments of silence, she hung up the phone and slept some more.The ringing of her phone woke her up.“Hello?” she whispered with t...ears.“Hi,” answered Nadia’s voice over the earpiece.Alene couldn’t speak, she was petrified.“You there?” Nadia asked hesitantly.Alene couldn’t help it, she busted into tears, “I am such a horrible person, I deserve to die, I’m so sorry.”“You’re right on all accounts, you just forgot one thing,” Nadia whispered back, “I shouldn’t have entered your room. Then he stepped around the room, at first with longer male strides butthen changing to mincing female movements. Helena smiled her acceptance.From her dresser she took one more item which, he saw with a shock, was apink collar. As she held it up he saw that the name FiFi was spelled outin small glittering rhinestones."What?" she wanted to know. "You put on the entire outfit and now you'regoing to make a fuss about this pretty collar? Charlene, lift your chinso I can put it on you."He. Annabelle was waiting, ‘While you and Donna were resting,’ she said as she lifted one eyebrow and winked, ‘Albert went down to the fish market.’ ‘Five women want to come up for Xmas. They told him you invited them. Two are Vietnamese immigrants with no local family. Rosita says she knows you, she’s from the Philippines, she’s lonely, her husbands found a younger Pilipino, and dumped her.’ ‘You’ll love the other two, they’re old, both widows with no family living here. They’ll love being the. Break..." Heather's words dissolved into a choked sob. She sniffled and wiped her eyes with her free hand."Break up? We can't anyway," Diane said, her voice soft. "The link, remember? Have to have sex to keep that up." Sex is not the same as love."Diane's eyes shimmered. "I know. But if I broke it off, I would have to do it completely, and that's impossible. I'm not sure I would want to."Heather tentatively took Diane's hand, and wondered if Diane could hear her heart hammering at the fear of.