I was sipping on a glass of white wine.I grinned. "It's a doctoral dissertation, and it's ahead of schedule. My advisor is impressed." What's it about... again?" The domain of microeconomic analysis applied to a wide range of human behavior and social interaction. I'm combining economics with social psychology, primarily related to urban environments."Josh laughed. "I now know not one iota more than before I asked. Gobbledygook, that's what it is."Are you making fun of what I do? I asked. She reached down to help him up. He got up, and I walked passed them. I went to my room, and locked the door behind me. I finished drying myself. As I stood there completely naked, I heard my mom and Dan going downstairs talking. As I got dressed, I looked outside to see Dan walking from the front porch looking up at my window.I went out to my truck, as I got into my truck. I got a call from Dan’s sister. She wanted to meet up with me. She told me to meet her behind the old. You’re dead without me, and you’re never, ever going to leave this place alive. —?—Nothing to say to that? The master watched his property closely. Although he had conditioned this sissy well, it was never clear what a sissy might do when confronted with something so profoundly unsettling as the knowledge he’d just conveyed to her.The sissy raised his gaze to meet that of his master for the first time in a long time. Then? he burst into tears. They were thick tears, wet and uncontrollable, more. She felt humbled. Who was she to say anything? “Go on, then! Go have you fun,” she said. Rory and Zach stayed with Leila. They didn’t have anyone they needed to get back to. But they were used to Leila leaving by now, so there was an awkward silence. Then Rory pulled out some marijuana. The trio smoked and watched porn. It wasn’t long before Leila was horny again. She was using sex as an escape, as she always had. Whereas before it had been to get away from the boredom of marriage, now it was.