“Then we’ll see how serious you are. I’ll grant your wish, on my conditions. You’ll be my concubine, my slave wife. When the child is weaned y...ou’ll have a second child and live with me until that child is weaned. You’ll leave one child with me to raise and one will be raised by your parents. This means a minimum of three years as my concubine. You have until I’m ready to leave today to think on this, and to make a decision, I’ll not accept an answer before then.” She gulps, when I turn away her. It's been nice these last two years getting away from my folks but knowing if I needed to go home it was only an hour's drive. Not that my folks are so bad mind you, really I had it lucky, but being the oldest of three, they always expected me to set the example for my little brothers. Tom and Joe, who are graduating this weekend, aren't twins, though they act like it sometimes. Tom is the youngest, just turning 18 a week ago and Joe has been 18 since the beginning of August. I haven't seen. No subject was taboo with her new friend, why couldn’t she be like this with Geoff?“How you feeling?”“God,” she smoothed out her dress, “feels good.”“Feeling good is good enough for me,” Jenny sang gently as she strummed on a guitar.Jane rose and wandered to the window while Jenny sang a couple of bars from an old Janis Joplin song. From up here she could see the entire street, in the distance the lights around Edinburgh castle had just come on, illuminating the walls in a golden sheen. He had. I know, because that's what he gives to me. But, evidently, I don't appreciate it enough.''He just wants you to love him, ' Annalisa thought.'That's the problem, ' Béla agreed. 'He wants me to love him. And only him.''But how can that be when I plainly see in his thoughts that he enjoys your ... what was that phrase ... Oh! Your 'extramarital' activities?'Béla chuckled at the phrase she knew he would never use to her face regarding her sexual proclivities. 'He may not say it to me, but he does.