"Mistress," she said, falling to her knees behind the counter as her face contorted with rapturous desire.Rebecca, vaguely conscious in the back of he... own mind, could sense a slight change from Marin's usual conquests. No longer starved with burning, insatiable desire, Marin felt calmer, more controlled. She still ached with carnal hunger, but she seemed somehow less desperate. Almost peaceful.Marin reached across the counter and grabbed a fistful of Valerie's shirt collar and started walking. It looked like the remote control for a television set, small and black with buttons, knobs, and switches. "You can play with it later. I need to teach you how to use it," she said with a hint of conspiracy in her voice. She looked up and nodded over John's right shoulder. "She's here. Your wife's here." John turned and looked behind him. It was his wife but not like he'd seen her before. She was wearing a full-length dress of what looked like gray flannel. The neck was high and the sleeves. So what if she's a lesbian? I know that it isn't bad. I just ... tried to fit in, and it was wrong of me. I needed to stand by my principles and convictions, not try to sound holier than thou."So if you're thinking that I'm some kind of prude who won't fit into your lifestyle ... well, you're wrong, Dan. I want to be part of this, I swear it! Can you give me another chance, honey? I mean, hey, as kinky as I can be about some things, I'm hardly going to judge anyone else. I certainly don't wish. We had also created the Army of Western Oregon, the first such mobile military formation of its kind in the history of Haven. It only had six divisions, each of about fifteen thousand troops, but it was one of the biggest field armies in the world right then. It was under the field command of Major General Aengus Schumacher himself. For now, at least. It was a professional, standing army, and that went a long way toward encouraging our neighbors to at least consider yielding to our.