And the fact that she'd had to re-locate to Oxfordshire, some seventy or eighty kilometres from London, would have placed a job opportunity like this ...ight at the bottom of the list. But now when she went to sleep she no longer had the odour of aging men adhering to her body and no residual memory of their repulsive cocks between her thighs that no amount of scrubbing could remove.Although the same river ran through Oxford as it did London, there were none of the elaborate flood barriers that. She watched the show for a moment. Hercules was fighting somebody, who knocked him down, then threw him against a wall. The camera zoomed in on the actor's face just before fading to a commercial. Caroline was startled by the sudden harsh laugh from Kalliste."I know it's kind of stupid," Caroline said when she saw Kalliste's face, "but it's about one of the few authentic heroes the world has seen." How much do you know about Herakles?" Kalliste asked very quietly, looking down at her place. “Bullshit. I should have been more sensitive. You had a crush on me all this time, didn’t you?” I nodded. The tears dripped from my chin. Her soft fingers covered my cheeks, and I was forced to look up at her. The warmth was still there in her eyes. Eve stood behind her, I hadn’t seen her come with us, too wrapped up in the misery of the moment, and she had her head on Linda’s shoulder, her face full of concern. She whispered something into her ear which made Linda shake her head, then some. " I didn't need rescuing," I grumbled at him. I was uncomfortable with the way he kept brushing his hips against mine, and bringing my right breast into contact with his chest. He liked scraping me sideways, trying, I assumed, to harden my nipples. Regrettably, it was working."You here for the seminar?" he asked."No," I said, trying to steer him back toward the bar. He was purposely keeping me turned, my back to the bar, and to Richard."That's too bad," he said with a smirk. "We could have.