Anyway, this agent asked to read the first couple chapters and passed it along to some publishers and one of them liked it so much they offered me a s...all advance,’ she finished shyly. ‘Eve,’ he said warmly. ‘That’s wonderful. Congratulations!’ ‘Thanks,’ she said, grinning. ‘So you’re here doing research?’ he asked. ‘Exactly. I just got here last week and -‘ She stopped suddenly, his words registering. ‘Wait – what do you mean here?’ she asked curiously. ‘What?’ ‘You asked if I was here. I think there will be time before we sleep and you are beginning your time of eggloss.” Even tho Erika’s “father” was Begum’s life-father, it was the custom for the femelle’s consort to be called Father and the other to be called Forefather and thus she called Jared, Father. “Mother?” “Yes, Dear?” “I love Father dearly and find him a handsome male, but I cannot begin to fathom why thou chosest him to be thy consort and to live on the edge of the Jungle. Couldst thou not sway him to go back into. ’ ‘I know,’ she told him, in a matter of fact way. ‘Thanks for telling me, but it took you long enough. Very naughty, Thomas…’ *** Rebecca de Santos pushed her class harder. ‘And more, ladies! One, two, three, four… Come on, push it, go that extra mile… work those bodies.’ In truth, she’d pushed the class a little too hard. She always did when she was this frustrated. Not that they objected. It was good for them. Her too. Forced her irritations out of her hard, athletic body. And there were. " That's a shame; she'd have been very welcome. Sheila should hopefully be out of action this weekend."I spotted the word."Hopefully?" Yep. If not, she's very pregnant indeed. We went down there last weekend to have Sunday lunch with his parents, but we stayed with the twins on Saturday night for a bit of fun. I wasn't feeling all that great with my period, so I only had one go with Adrian, in the shower. The two of them then decided to play tag with Sheila half the night, and she went a teensy.