"Because here is the one place that we would have the best chance ofreturning who you were to you. This is not the same Grove that the fourof us enter...ed months ago. Arath' Mahar Selicia was just the beginning ofwhat welled up when she called it. It was strong then and it has onlygrown stronger with each passing day since then. Here is the only placethat we reasoned that we would have the best chance to save who you werewithout sacrificing you needlessly." Why didn't you go to Clayton? She would. Eventually, they arrived at Richard's house and had a long lingering kiss on entering, "Fancy a shower to freshen up?" asked the host as they broke."Will you be in it too?" asked John."Of course," was the reply. In the hotel, they had shared a shower but that was after sex, this time it would be a prelude to sex.The shower was very long and very sensual as the naked men kissed and groped and erect cocks were stroked and sucked.They were both longing to fuck and be fucked so, once dry, they were. This was just too damned intimate, she decided, and they needed ground rules. She asked him to sit by the lake's edge awhile, and he agreed."We need to talk about this situation..." Do we?" ... without the smartarse 'Bradleyisms'," she told him."Ah, yeah, go on?" Look, you're not a bad guy..." She waited for some smart interjection. There was none, so she continued. "It's just I don't think we'd be able to make it in the long term." Again, she waited for a response. Bradley was silent and it. I went on to ask what business he was in wondering if he realized that I had noticed the name on the shoebox. “I own a store on the north side.” He paused then added. “On Halsted Street.” Halsted Street? Halsted Street has now become one of the most famous gay ways in the world, although in those days it was just eclectic. I had walked Halsted Street the summer before when I visited Chicago soon after my 21 st birthday and there was a definite weirdness to the neighborhood. Halsted Street and.