"I will transfer her to my retinue tonight. She comes to me now," he commanded. "I will not allow that," Marcus had replied. "Her skills with language... and her knowledge of the ways of other cultures will be better employed in Rome." "Your desire for her skills in bed has made you blind," the other tribune laughed. "I will have her tonight." To the soldiers he said, "Take her to my quarters." "She remains here under my protection," Marcus insisted. "I will not allow you to take her anywhere.". This is happening so fast! I hope and pray I soon will be getting some time to be able to digest what is happening to me. I need time to merge my true self into an understanding of Rachel!"EARTH TO RICKY!" I heard the shout from Grace. I woke out of whatever planet I was at the time and looked at the direction of the shout. Grace and Anna looked at me and smiled. Grace said, "Ricky is leaving now and Rachel will appear very shortly. Let Anna finish with you ok?"I looked at them both and just. .She had an affair with a guy and wanted to marry him but both their family opposed it and even that guy didn’t seem to be interested. She had broken up with him and for a change my parents invited her to my place. I never had thought of anything with her till one day. I used to sleep alone in balcony which was fully covered or converted into a room it was a small one. One night she was not feeling sleepy so she came to me. We started to chat and then topic about her love life came and she got. Not at a greasy spoon, but dinner at a really nice restaurant. When he agreed, Roger tried not to think of it as a date. After all she was the boss, he told himself. Also there was that ten to fifteen years age difference. Hillary suggested that she pick him up at home. He needed to change and still didn’t have a car or driver’s license. Neither of them wanted him driving the scooter at night. That’s how she came to be on his security camera footage at 7pm on a Friday night. ‘Where are we.