We had already managed to get control of 40 percent of the voting stock and hoped to gain total control without spending more money on more stock. The...hostile takeover that we were attempting with Doan Ltd. was the main reason I'd never taken PSI public.I hadn't said much beyond good morning and had been listening to the back and forth between the two sides. Finally I'd had enough and stepped in. I asked my people to leave the table and to wait for me outside. Turning to Mr. Doan I said, "Let's. The last problem, of course, was Dee's choice to enter into Courtesan training and the professional Courtesan lifestyle by way of her membership in the Sigma Lambda Tau Society. Kyle and Dee had addressed this before they had even started formally dating. Dee had assured Kyle that she could be emotionally monogamous with him while being physically and sexually involved in the activities of Sigma Lambda Tau and those engagements in which she would be associated as part of that group.She would be. She sighed. No matter how hard the system tried, a jackass or two always seemed to make it through the sieve.She thought back to Petra and Lucas, her first dependents, and when she turned fourteen, her first lovers. They’d snuggled in her bed, lay quiet and still, and at the stroke of midnight had wakened her when they assaulted every erogenous spot on her body. By then, they were full-fledged sponsors, refusing to leave her household. Luckily so, because they, along with Gunny and Melody, were. "Mother, help Dad pee and grab your purse. The mall stores are open for two more hours, and I know you don't have any workout clothes."The explosion of resistance was predictable and vigorous, and the debate raged for half an hour. Hal was sullen when the women left, but Cheryl had anticipated that. The one quick view of her parents in the shower that first night had convinced her that Darlene's neglect of her rather nice body was a crime - a crime she could do something to remedy.Knowing that.