”“We were kids, you were a scrawny freckled little girl and I was even thinner and smaller. We’ve changed a lot since then.”“What’s change...? We have pubic hair and our bodies have matured, I have broad hips, you have broad shoulders, so what? I saw you standing in the window and I didn’t feel uncomfortable. You could have come down, stripped nude and joined us, being naked around you when we were 8 and 9 didn’t bother me, it certainly wouldn’t now.”I didn’t know how to answer her, I couldn’t. ” “Your husband must have been very understanding.” “Yes, that too, he loved me completely, and we both knew that about each other.” The older woman intruded into Dan’s questioning. “Your wife is posing now, isn’t she?” “Yes.” “You suspect she is having an affair with Portrait?” “Laura teases that she might be; I don’t know if she teases Greg too. She could be screwing Portrait, but I somehow doubt she is; she has two men to be faithful with.” “Portrait can be demanding, and he is very good as. He’d made no plans, though. He’d never really considered his future in concrete terms.Now, though, he realized what Deia had done just felt right to him.If Bena didn’t want it, though... “I’m not sure we can avoid it – Deia’s decision seemed...”He paused, thinking his words through. “She seemed determined in her orders.”He looked up and sighed yet again. “If you don’t want to go through with it, though – I won’t make you. I’ll bear her wrath alone. I know she didn’t ask you about it...”“Wait,”. " She was slurring a little -- good thing she lived just up the street, because no way was she driving. "Leas' you're a gentleman." Gemmin.As she said this she leaned into me but misjudged the distance. As I reached to steady her she fell right at me, so I ended up with my arms around her as she pressed against my chest. "Whoopsie, sorry. God, I hate a sloppy drunk and now I are one."I hate me a sloppy drunk too, but a pair of firm tits and there goes my standards. Did I mention she's great.