Iremained standing there in the open door until Mark's car disappearedfrom view. I made it back into the living room and sank into one of thebig arm c...hairs and just tried to replay in my mind all that had justhappened.Friday EveningSarah returned home around 4:00. I thought I smelled wine on herbreath.By now I think I was pretty calm about Sarah leaving me stranded withMark. It was a pretty rotten trick to pull on me. But why bothergetting upset with her? She would just pretend that it was all. He even managed to get her eyelashes covered and some up her nose. She finished cleaning off and got dressed. She shamefully left, in her mind she knew the morning would have to be perfect. She departed the hotel, down the elevator and through the dreaded lobby.Again she felt as if everyone knew what she had done. That she was nothing but a dirty whore begging to be fucked in every hole not even 30 minutes prior. She couldn't even look up. She made her way to her vehicle and proceeded to leave,. Esther was the oddity. She had arrived with her Malan daughter, Jenny, and the little girl had excitedly gone off to play with the Governor's children. Esther seemed lost without her daughter, and Bernhard asked her about her life as the mother of an alien. She seemed surprised at the question."Sir, as far as her being an alien, I never saw her as that. She was my daughter, the fruit of my loins, the baby that I carried for nine months. That counts for a lot, you know. No matter what she looked. We were broken into teams for patrols and given maps to show the areas we would be in.All this time, men and horses were leaving and heading back toward the king's Keep, where they would disband. I found Sarah waiting for me and she grinned as she took my hand to lead me to our room. There was no window, but at least the bed was wide enough for us. She had already made the bed, and our things were placed neatly.She smiled as she closed the door, "They have a large bathing room."I turned and.