‘I’m not expecting you to be able to fight them off. You can’t. I’ve never known anyone to be able to offer them successful resistance. The on...y thing you need to be able to do is to hold them off until I get back. None of their distractions will last that long, so all you need to do is to resist for a little while, until I return. Do you understand?’ Maggie nodded, before realizing that Burke’s eyes were closed. She said, quietly, ‘Yes.’ Burke said, ‘Alright, then. We’re going to work on. I told her to follow me into the kitchen and I would make us both an Irish coffee and she could tell me what's on her mind.She followed me into the kitchen I already had hot coffee on so it was a matter of putting a shot of whisky in the cup we sat at the table as she wrapped her slender hands around the mug and seemed to be choosing her words for a second or two, she exhaled looking me straight in the eyes asked John is there something wrong with the way I look?Are you k**ding I replied from. Kristy found Shari's eye a final time. She realized Janeen had been right. It had been her obsessive love of Victoria which had blinded her to the fact that no one could ever satisfy the sexual appetite of this vampire/Mistress."And what do you do for an encore? What about tomorrow night? Next week? Next month?" she breathed, her words audible only to the former friend who stood ready to impale her.Shari looked up to Victoria in momentary confusion.Now Shari. Do it now, for me!Kristy screamed. I had some thinking to do. It was Saturday and Stacy and I promised the kids we would take them to the zoo. I had to make a major decision whether to ask Stacy to marry me. Then should I ask or even tell my kids.I decided to let them have their say. The following week I called all my kids and told them I had asked Stacy to marry me. On Saturday I was willing to let them all voice their opinions. So if they had anything to say they should be there. I asked Barb my eldest daughter if she would.