I push the shirt up enough to reveal your abdomen and stop, as my head moves from your lips downward.I kiss your jawbone, then a peck on your neck. I ...slide the tip of my nose down, through the valley between your breasts. I inhale slowly, your scent always having been more alluring to me than any drug. Working down, I kiss the top of your belly, then the right side. The bottom comes next, then the left side. Back to the top, I continue like this in a tightening spiral pattern toward your belly. I spent even more time with Amanda. No one thought it was odd because she was after all, my mother in law. We were the only family that each other had. Somehow neither, Amanda or anyone else noticed anything odd about Anna. I couldn't figure out a way to tell Amanda without sounding like I was the crazy one. After a few weeks she brought the subject up herself, at one of our lunches."Press, what happened to you and Anna?" asked Amanda, one day while we were having lunch. "She thinks you don't. I slide my arm out from her under her body as gently as I can. I stand next to my bed for a few minutes and watch M as she sleeps. “Beautiful Emma, beautiful M,” I think to myself. I head for the shower, close the bathroom door so the running water won’t wake her. After showering and drying off, I head to the kitchen, stopping to look in on M still sleeping. I place two towels on the mattress for her. When she wakes up, she can shower and come downstairs. I make coffee and head to the back. .. CRACK, CRACK.The Chief Eunuch had turned round and the second pair of blows was struck using the opposite hand on each woman to the one originally used. Again, there was neither sound nor movement from the women. The Emir mounted the whipping dais and inspected the two pairs of lines closely."My congratulations again to my Chief Eunuch," he said, "The lines are exactly parallel, and there is no detectable difference in the effect of either hand. This expertise must save him a lot of time.