We were down to about thirty brothers. If six guys dropped out, it would be down into the mid-twenties, and that’s a problem. All your money is goin...g to room and board, you still need to raise dues, and you don’t have enough cash to recruit or rush. It becomes a vicious circle. Not enough brothers means not enough dues means there’s no money to recruit new brothers and the number just starts dropping for another round.“Six? You have got to be shitting me! This just keeps getting better and. ’ Experimentally I try to dismiss him, but he does not go. Dionysus laughed gently, ‘You do not really want me to go, but I promise you, when you do, I shall be gone.’ I reach out to him. ‘Don’t leave me.’ We lie together on the cloud like softness of the covered floor. His image has stabilised. He seems a few years older than I, perhaps forty? I lie looking at him and peace engulfs me. I sleep and dream. ‘Oh God help me, I cannot bear the pain.’ I am tied down, he is forcing something into me. “He’s doing very well. He had a small fever last week. We were very worried, but apparently it’s quite normal in small babies.” Conversation became more relaxed as the girls discussed motherhood, and then gradually took in gossip on the girls’ friends and how life was back at the flat. Charlotte complained how the flat somehow didn’t seem right for the needs of parenthood. Josephine joked about the trials of feeding the baby and changing his nappies. Despite herself, Emma felt a smile break. "You ready to be fucked?"Charity hesitated for a moment, not answering. She was not going to beg in humiliation as she had with Gabe. The memory of it searing her once more."I-I don't have a choice... d-do I... ?" she moaned in abject acceptance."No! You sure as hell don't!" Jeff snapped and dropped his weight on her, his pelvis cradled between her open legs, but his upper body supported on brawny, work-hardened arms. On either side, Brad and Pete moved away, slightly, making room for Jeff as.