She thought she had known the instant David was conceived all those years ago, but she was horrified to realise that she couldn't even remember how ma...ny men she had opened her legs for in the last few weeks, let alone which ones came in her womb."You will be punished for this development," said the eunuch, "but only because it is a boy baby. We can sell you with the child, so your punishment will be lighter than usual." But I had no choice," Amelia protested, "It wasn't anything to do with me. And she knew that whatever had transpired, her husband was deeply involved in the mystery. She could conjure up all sorts of awful nightmares without half trying. Had Mitch craved his own niece so hotly that he'd gotten drunk and gone to the boutique and raped her? Had he even perhaps murdered her in a confused state of lust and passion? No, that was ridiculous to even consider. And yet all those terrible possibilities kept presenting themselves."I'm sure Mitch or Alice will call soon," she. I told him of my dream aboutattending college and my mother?s strong reprimand. As I finishedspeaking, he said softly, ?Darling, there are many ways to becomeeducated. You have already read more books than most women I know, exceptfor my mother. I promise you that you shall have full run of my library aswell as that of my father. I will gladly give you money to buy as manybooks as you wish. As hostess in our home you shall have poets andphilosophers and painters as our dinner guests. My only. We needuse several of these at first to keep it dilated until it does it on itsown. " That sounds like a lot, but we also did throat work. We shaved yourtrachea, shortened the throat's sound box but most importantly, weshortened your vocal chords. Your voice will be higher in pitch naturallyso you won't have to think about it and we've arranged a therapist tohelp after you can talk again. The down side is you have to be soundlessfor at least six weeks. Can you do that?" I blinked.The two week.