How I had tried to make a go of the marriage, and how now we had this 'understanding' between us and lived practically separate lives. It took some ti...e but at last I ground to a halt.All that could be heard in the room was the ticking of the kitchen clock as I waited for Pippa to say or do something. She got up and put the kettle on!She sat down after filling the kettle and as it boiled she talked. "It's true I was attracted to you the first time I saw you, not that you noticed me, only having. I'm hallucinating. I can'tpossibly be Rachel, get me out of here, get me out of this!" he whined,hearing her sultry, low feminine purr rise up into a pained shriek.It was about this moment that his cell phone rang."Oh great, exactly what I need!" Brad said in his girlish voice,striding off into the living room. Pert ass sticking up in the air, ittook forever for him to fish the phone out of jeans pocket. On thedisplay of his cell-phone read "Rachel." He had her number saved, buthad spoken to. .. This is... it's serious. Idon't know what to do. I don't know... how to handle her anymore."Emily sighed.He felt utterly humiliated, devastated, worse than before he called.There was more though, something twisted, because as desperate as he wasfor a way out, as much as Julia had to be stopped, some small part of himwas still aroused by Julia's, new found, dominance. Even, the fact, thathis sister now knew about the FLM was somehow adding to it. It was likehumiliation and sexual arousal. Mike had banked on the County Commission meeting filling out a big chunk of it, but thanks to vacations and hospital stays, the commission had come up one short of a quorum. This was an off week for the city council, too, so that knocked out the possibility of another regular headline. The school board had met Monday night, but had managed to make it through an absolutely nothing meeting in fourteen minutes flat. The only possibility of a headline there was that they had managed to finish a.