After a good while collecting his breath on the couch, standing a little unsteadily Matthew wandered towards the kitchen, grabbing an ice-cold coke fr...om the fridge and swigging generously. Continuing on, he opened the double doors that led out to the balcony. Smack in the centre of the financial sector, huge office blocks were dotted with light against the black skyline like something out of a Hollywood movie. Somewhere beyond the buildings, the ocean stretched out like a huge oil slick. And on. "Warren, I suppose I thought that, if I got you a lot of girls, you'd forget about Sophia. But that's not going to happen, is it?" No." I guess I was also hoping that one of them would sweep you off your feet." Sorry. Hey, if you didn't do it..." They both laughed. "But, you need to know this. It has made things better. I'm not over Sophia, no, but at least I'm not sitting in my room every night staring at the walls. I go out. I have fun. I go to bed and have fun. Alexa, it is fun, especially. "I asked him to let me tell you. I don' like being traded to a last place team, y'understand." He shook his head, sad-eyed."Of course," I said."But they didn' trust me any more up there. Said the ax was sure to fall, and they'd get nothing for me. I guess the word was out."I nodded."I'll give you one hundred percent, every day. It's jus' that, maybe, if things don' go right, an' I can't control this here problem, I might take off for a day or two." Okay," I said. "As long as you stay out of. Mother ... controlling... Gina fell to her bed and rolled onto her back. She spread her legs and sank her fingers into her willing cunt. She surrendered herself to her own erotic thoughts, writhing and moaning in obedient content, the thought forgotten.The old husk of the abandoned church stood like a skeletal guardian watching over an approach to a long-deserted kingdom. Set back from a road to nowhere just short of what were the old city limits of Haven, its quaint nineteenth-century.