. I'll admit that I sometimes slip. But it doesn't mean that I don't love you..." Oh, don't get all defensive on me," Courtney said, trying to stifle ... giggle. "And I look at other men from time to time, but Matt, I never seriously thought about cheating. Not even when we were separated and I was trying to get you off my mind." I knew you wouldn't," he lied."Bullshit," she said as she put her empty cup down and reached for his hand. "I know you worried that I would take a lover and go on with. "They liked that." I had a lot of fun at last night's orgy." You mean yesterday morning's orgy," Lilith corrected. "It did last six hours. Here, drink this. No, darlings, Thomas needs to drink that stuff. Yes, he loves you, but he needs to get restored."I was feeling good—if a bit depleted. The drink was some sort of sweetened yogurt drink—I think. It was thick and smooth and white and sweet with a sour tang. Almost immediately I felt an energy surge. One moment I was feeling good and tired,. “So how did it go last night?” Andrea asked me as I sat at her kitchen table drinking coffee.“I spent the night with a young lesbian.” I omitted Natalie’s name but did describe what we’d got up to with each other and ‘Big Richard’.“Well I’ve got my own ‘Big Richard’ and he’s going to be put to good use before the mornings out.” Andrea promised me. At that moment Richard appeared in the kitchen, sporting a ‘five o’clock shadow’, a pale-blue flannel dressing-gown and slippers.“Morning Linda.. " She took a sip and stared into the rising steam."How do the other women of the Colony feel about my presence?" I inquired."Sheila thinks that you are 'interesting,' and most of my sisters agree with her assessment." Seraina blew on her cup to cool it before taking another sip.I wanted to know how Sheila's mind worked. I had to take a page out of the Dos Equis beer advertising campaign and become The Most Interesting Man in the World, not bloody likely if being exciting was keeping me alive..