”“That’s right,” Wesley answered.“Only you have a problem,” George went on. “You never made that clear, so you’re stuck with trying to...block Midco. If you back off, you’ll lose face.”Ingram cast his eyes down.“I just thought they’d give up the waiver and we’d declare victory,” he admitted.“You need a way out,” George said. “You can’t back away. You’d lose too much prestige. Those young college kids would have the stars washed out of their eyes and you would be the laughing stock of the cocktail. “I guess I don’t have to ask if you agreed to go with him,” Marylyn said.“I suppose not, and I couldn’t be happier with my decision,” Paula claimed.“So we heard. Was he really as good as you were letting on?” Marylyn asked.“No, actually I had to tone down my excitement quite a bit, because he was, by far, the best lover I’ve ever had,” Paula admitted.“Oh, I’ll bet you say that to all the guys who eat your pussy,” I teased.“No, I’ve never had anyone eat me as good as you did, and that even. Call me ‘Cunt.’” She tries to sound casual.From another speaker, now in front of her, “Cunt, remove your clothes.”And so, for her it begins, that definitive step, the acknowledgment in the command that the purpose of the play is ultimately carnal. If she’s naked, she knows, that no matter what he does to her, she will be satisfied. Satisfied in a way that nothing else in her life before him, compares to.Placing her baked gift on the floor, Nikki slips off her heels, lifts her dress over her. Dual function wigs — to hide the physical damage and to disguise Sabbath’s overall appearance. Her original change to an even shorter pixie cut hadn’t been intended to mask her identity back then. It had been mostly to simply remove the singed hair from the first attack.We stocked up on all her favorite necessities — gels, soaps, shampoos and conditioners, toothpaste, deodorant, lipstick, foundation, toner. It’s amazing how much you need when you’re starting completely from scratch.Everything.