"I hope both of them can make it even if we are giving them such short notice." Oh if there is a chance that we can help them, I am sure they will alt...r their arrangements to be there." My dad told her. "If my firm was having a hard time I certainly would."Rory and I were present when the junior minister arrived. We always smiled when we heard his name for he was called Teddy Edwards. To give him his due he was the one who had first joked about his parents calling him Edward Edwards but it was. Slave realized: she could leave. Suddenly, the idea of walking away didnot seem as absurd as before. It was a possibility, she could do it shethough. This made staying so much more painful It was easy to stay as aself-pitying Slave who thought all her thoughts were controlled by herMaster. Now, she knew a choice existed. She knew she could leave. The rest of the afternoonand evening she spent fixated on the luggage. All she had to do is walkaway and not be a Slave. This thought flickered in. " What are you going to do?" I whispered, hopelessness sweeping over me."I'm going to change you," she smiled, standing up and moving closer. "You haven't a clue what I've been doing here, have you?" She sneered. "A lot of people don't. I have been researching cloning, genetic engineering and the process of growing humans for organs etc." I stared at her blankly and she laughed again. "Too much for you Allan? Let me put it simply. I've grown a body, an empty one actually and I'm going to put. It seems that our daughter has had sex with Owen a few times. Before you panic, she's on the pill, so don't worry. It was what she asked me that I thought was rather surprising." Oh?" She told me that she and Owen have had sex a couple of times and that it's not as good as she'd thought it would be. It seems she's listened to us having sex, even right outside our bedroom door, and she says we sure do enjoy what we're doing." True enough, I suppose. What else?" She said when they do it, he just.