I just thought if you weren't doing anything tomorrow, we might..." Ummmm, yes, tomorrow sounds fine. How about lunch?" You read my mind. How about Al...fredo's over on Rosemont?" Ooooh, now who's reading who's mind. They have a house salad to die for." Okay, tomorrow it is. Say about twelve-thirty?" I'll see you then."Sondra felt conflicted as she hung up. Her curiosity, especially the erotic overtones about the society which Brenda had teased her with was again aflame, Sondra titillated to know. ‘Lordship’s waitin’ in the drawing room, miss.’ Sykes said without so much as a greeting or asking if she slept all right. ‘Is he?’ She asked nervously. Was Derek really serious about going through with this? Well, she would just have to explain to him that this was a mistake. ‘He’s been pacin’ all mornin’, waitin’ on you.’ Then he thrust forward a bouquet of hothouse flowers. ‘And he sent fer these. Ain’t right fer a bride to walk without some pretties.’ She took the flowers, a smile tugging. I told Becky that I could get it and would fix her something if she wants. Becky said “Please? Can I cook for you? I seen you had bacon and eggs. Do you want some eggs?” I said “Yeah. Yours!” Becky looked over the fridge door and she was beet red in the face! About that time, Kelly and Marcus came down all clean and dressed. Kelly and Becky told us to sit and they would fix us breakfast. After we had breakfast, I told everyone I needed to get in the shower. Kelly said “Becky hasn’t. It is just you and me here Curt, so you are the man of the house, because you are the only man here in the house. Now while I won’t be walking around in the all together. (Naked.) But I can promise you that you’ll be seeing my panties often enough to know the colors of most of them that I have. You will also know when I am on my period. You will damn near be my spouse as we will be working hard every day to keep up the great reputation of this ranch that Jeff worked so hard to build up, before.