I've thought about you."I wasn't seeing anyone. There had been a man, beginning right after my night with Samir last spring, but it was ultimately a s...hort-lived relationship—one that had left me shaken and sad. I'd been unusually celibate recently. "Okay," I said. A few days before he was due to arrive, on impulse, I invited him to stay at my place. Didn’t that make sense, since we’d evidently progressed beyond a one-night stand? Hotels felt so cheap and anonymous. That had been part of the. They have given me back my self respect.I know, it sounds crazy, but that's what they have managed to do.Perhaps its something you can talk to Will about once he returns. And chat with Marissa while you feed Veronica. It does sound like they have tried to do the same thing for you.What's funny is that it fits with an idea about concubines I once read about. Most people forget that historically kings and other nobles were expected to have multiple wives. Basically they could have as many wives. Every girl her age should certainly know that. Maybe she won't let guys walk all over her as much now!"To finally ​beating himself up for missing the opportunity to fuck his favorite fantasy girl, "She was practically begging me to fuck her! What kind of an idiot am I?"​Nate finally settled down enough to allow himself to go to bed. He went to sleep without too much trouble, but he awoke several hours later with Lizzie on his mind, and an erection in his shorts. He saw no harm in relieving. It was hard to, though, with how her marriage was going. When she first married Gerald at the age of twenty-one, everything had been pure bliss. They had been in the honeymoon stage for at least the first five years—best friends, and lovers. But after he had gotten a promotion, and she took up teaching night school classes, they seemed to lose time for each other. Neither had enough energy to make love as often as they had before, or even to have long conversations about their days. It had been.