I let what a was doing go and went to take the call,"Pierce" It was my lawyer."Yeah, how are you, something special?"Yes Pierce, sorry to tell you the... news, your mother called a few minutes ago, I don't know err ... how to tell you this ... sorry old boy, your father passed away early this morning".I was stunned at first, then grief made my eyes fill with tears, which began to fall down my cheeks and bearded chin, while distress and pain made my heart sink in my chest.My father was young,. " To his surprise, both men agreed andhappily escorted him through the Keep. Somehow, with his mother being amerchant's daughter his status had been changed in their eyes to that ofa gentlewoman. Thankfully, that had offered some protection from anyunwanted advances, for now.**********Rowena silently walked across the stone courtyard, entering the innerbailey as her mother and father spoke with her betrothed. Dinner at theCastle had always been a girlish fantasy, although in her dreams, shesat. Or maybe he should go around asking random strangers to let him fuck them. After all with the right amount of money and the right target he could make a girl do anything if he wanted to.Of course there’s always his ex-girlfriends who thought that he was beneath them because he was not spoiled like they were and did not ask for money. He earned everything he had and everything else was a reward for a job well done.Granted from time to time he would help a poor stressed out girl late at night. I don’t know what I did for her – maybe just filed down her horns a bit. But it had occurred to me - even at the time - that if I had met Gage anywhere civilized she would have made a wonderful wife.In the interim, Rinaldi and I have had a lot of those kind of moments. We would get together. And he would rustle up a couple of women. Then I would get laid-- usually.It might sound kind of feeble that I was willing to let my buddy facilitate my sex life. But he was just so good at it. And I am so.