Preparing a light meal she sat and read the local paper. She realised she was seeing the words but not absorbing the sense. She cleared it away and be...an work again. Elaine popped in every weekday for the next three weeks, and Janice began to enjoy the visits. They talked and compared notes, played with Gemma, Elaine fed her and Janice would change her. they laid her in the stroller and lowered the back so she could sleep. They discussed Maddie and Rob and generally Janice began to feel a. My cadence and speed are higher than I am used to. With 15 km left to go, I catch the leading bike, but I am more tired than expected.I draft up close enough to talk with him and say, “Make you a deal. Every 2 km, we switch. I draft first, then you. The last km is every man for himself. I have a bike computer so I will read it off. Deal.”“If you say, kid. Just know I’m in it to win.”“I’ve already done better than I was hoping, but I will take that win from you if I can.”I let him pull a little. ‘Yes, you’ve quite a pair!’ stuttered the beaming guard. ‘If you d-don’t mind my saying.’ He peeled a security pass identity sticker from a roll and passed it to her through the window of his booth. ‘I don’t mind at all,’ smiled Emma. ‘I love compliments on my boobs. I wish more men were like you, unafraid to pass comment. Here, would you like to put the sticker on my vest?’ ‘Oh, um, yes please,’ the guard licked his lips as Emma approached proffering her sumptuous bosom in its tissue-thin skin. They were all whores though you would never tell at first glance, elegantly dressed and discreet in their makeup the only hint one might have was that they were all very pretty. The woman on the armchair was particularly beautiful though older than the other three. “I wanted you here,” the woman said, “to celebrate a good year. You three are my best girls and one of you will inherit Black Rose when I retire,” “Retire?” one of the others said, an Asian beauty not past her twenties “you can’t be.