“Yeah. The surface of a donut is a torus. In computing, we do it this way.” Bret pulled out a notebook and drew a 4X4 grid on a blank page. “Whe...n you get to the top, the next locus is the bottom of that column; when you get to the right, the next locus is the leftmost locus of that row.” The other girls, even Sharon who’d known the answer when he started explaining, looked as confused as she felt.That night, Candace apologized to her in the study. “I was a little hard on your guy. Yeah, I. "Is this your son," he said, pointing toward Andrew."It is," I said. It surprised me that Bryce hadn't referred to Andrew as"our son" or done something else to call attention to his status as thebiological father."He looks nice," Bryce said, still being weirdly calm and non-Bryce-like."I'd ask how you've been but it seems like all I have to do to find thatout is get on the internet." Yeah, all this publicity is kind of crazy," I said."You deserve it," he said. "You're doing amazing things.". Our lovemaking that night was wild and free and uninhibited. When we were spent, Sarah asked me if I would do something for her."Anything." I want you to wear one of my nightdresses." Now?" Yes, now. I want to wake up beside you and see you in silk."Now, dear reader, things have been moving along at rather a breakneck pace. It would be a lie to say that I hadn't enjoyed the last few days but it would be equally untrue if it hadn't worried me in some way. I mean, before any of this I was a. Well, I’ll recover. Anyway, she was more than worth it.After she left he remained in a bed for a while, trying to extract something useful from parting words that sounded more like a warning the longer he considered them. “It’s almost entirely up to me,” she said. Wendy tried to tell me something fairly similar, and even though I still can’t quite wrap my head around how this is somehow my problem to solve, I can’t imagine that they’re both wrong, either. Still, even if I accept that what.