’ He stood and took my hand. We were kissing all the way to the hotel room. He opened the door to his room and picked me up. I held onto his should...rs and he carried me over the threshold. We never released the kiss until we got to the bedroom. He stopped and turned on the TV but to the radio stations and picked some soft music. He then came back to me and we looked into each others eyes. ‘Where were we?’ I didn’t break the stare into his eyes and I responded in a soft voice, ‘We ere here.’ . " "Where?" Ummmm, everywhere. Ohhhhh, one's cupping my breast, stroking, caressing across its underside, pushing it up, flicking upwards, mmmmm, circling my nipple, fondling the flesh, teasing at its tip, capturing, twisting, Ohhh fuck that's good." Who? What?" "Shades. It's the shades of the departed, Orpheus. I can feel them all about me, pressing against me, writhing their insubstantiality against mine. Oh fuck." "What happened?" "Someone, something, emptied an amphora of oil over my head,. Else, it would go to any living, true relative the lawyers could find. He had planned to leave it to the second son. At the time of his death, he hadn’t been able to locate any other living relatives of their direct family line.He informed her that he hadn’t petitioned the King for the Dukedom due to his illness. At the time of writing, he knew he didn’t have long to live. He sent out people to try to trace the other relatives to see if there were any alive.He urged her to claim the title for. Things would be different if any of them were truly in love with girls, but they weren’t, and that was the honest truth. Hello? Husband, kids, Trans-Am? Ring a bell, ladies? Robin pulled her hand away. ‘No,’ she said too softly for Kari to hear. ‘No,’ she repeated, and all four looked up at her. She hadn’t meant to cause a scene, or to make anyone feel foolish or upset. ‘I’m not ready,’ Robin admitted, then added, ‘yet,’ although that was a lie. She had no intention of jumping into an orgy.