"Mrs. Larkin sat and just stared at Rachel. It appeared that she hadn'theard a word Natalie had said to her.Rachel, now back to her promised state, wa...ked up to Mrs. Larkin andextended her hand."I'm so pleased to meet you, Mrs. Larkin. I hope I meet with yourapproval and am what you expected."Mrs. Larkin snapped out of her reverie and smiled, taking Rachel's handin a gentle squeeze."I am so sorry, my dear, your beauty was much more than I expected; Iam not easily rendered speechless. To answer. Bill had a job with the County Highway Department and she was a school teacher. They went to church every Sunday. They were trying to start a family but Millie had trouble carrying the fetus. It seems that every time she conceived the baby would abort at between two and four months. Millie was becoming more and more depressed. She started joining all sorts of women's support groups. She was rarely around anymore to spend any one-on-one time with Bill. Bill rarely spent any one on one time with. I was just about to get undressed to take a shower when Cathy stuck her head in the room.“While you shower, I’ll get dinner for us,” she said. “Anything in particular you want from the restaurant?”“No, everything I’ve had from there is great,” I said. “As long as there are some of those lovely spring rolls, plus whatever else you want, that will be fine. I’ll just give Lisa a call to let her know I arrived here if that’s okay.”Cathy said that would be fine, so I had a quick shave, took a. ‘Make yourself useful then. Go to the bar and buy me a gin and tonic. Make it a double. Get a mojito for my friend.’ As I walked away she added, ‘and don’t buy a drink for yourself, you don’t deserve one.’After returning with the drinks I sensed people looking at me enviously, probably wondering what I was doing with two such dangerously intoxicating women. I was too filled with nervous anticipation to feel flattered by their attention. Mistress Whiplash and her friend were discussing various.