”Jake raised a brow. “So then you...”“Have two copies, yes. I learned to bend time from a very young age. But by then, Sarah was already… we...l, let’s just say that she took the news about you two really badly. Oh, and she’s been cheating on you.”“That seems far-fetched. She practically hates sex.”“No,” Carol said, “she hates losing control. Think about it. She used sex to control you when you were younger, used it to make you fall in love, to make you marry her… can you name one major life. I wasn’t finished, so I flipped her over and pressed my cock against her bottom and began to rub myself on her. Everything was OK, I was almost there. More grunts and sighs from Sam when I slid my hands under her to hold her breasts. I was right on the edge. One more stroke, perhaps two, no more than three and I’d be at the tipping point. I could feel it getting close.The back door slammed. I heard a gasp, a strangled gulp, and turned my head to look. Mom was standing on the back porch. What. ’ Alex had never written back. His personal business was probably a wife, she had thought bitterly. Three months later she’d met Joshua. She wrote Alex a final, no-nonsense message that she was involved with someone and didn’t want to hear from him, and blocked him from her address book. She firmly believed in only one relationship at a time, and only with single, unattached men. Sandy, her office mate, shook her from her reverie with a phone message flapping in her face. ‘Guess someone. Katsura (entering): It's late; I'm sorry to disturb you.Tomoe: If you're looking for Himura, he's out for the night.Katsura: I know. I'm his superior. I know all of his movements.(A little later.)Tomoe: Madness?Katsura: When I was young, Takasugi and I and many of our friends studied under a master of Shouka Sonjuu... Yoshida Shouin. He was executed in the Ansei no Taigoku. He once said that we are destroying an era of Tokugawa rule that drove men to madness. If we are to build a new age, we.