She smiled as she went to leave the room; and I jokingly teased only one thing better than a smile like that! "Oh what is that then?" she asked."A smi...e like that on a naked sexy nurse!" I cheekily replied. She gave me a wicked grin as she closed the door.I was shortly whisked off to undergo tests so I do not know if she came back to my room; but two and a half hours later I was back in my room just in time for Janet to come in and check what I had ordered for dinner."I had the weirdest dream. After seeing my new family, I called my parents. They had just gotten home from the airport. Dad said they would get the first flight they could. Mom got on and asked how everyone was. I told her that the girls were fine and gave her all the details. Then I told her that I couldn't wait to see them.After I tucked everyone in I left the hospital to get some rest. I hadn't been home for 10 minutes when the phone rang. It was Sheila, Caroline's best girlfriend, she was crying."I'm so sorry, I just. His wife, the empress’s stepmother Attia (and the empress insisted that she was her stepmother, not her real mother, who had been unceremoniously divorced and replaced with Attia, who was only five years older than Severina), had been conspicuous on the list of those who failed to sacrifice to Emperor Lucius by the initial deadline. She had hurried to make the sacrifice after the execution of Flavius Clemens and Flavia Domitilla demonstrated that rank was no protection for those who failed to. Miss Mayes, could you come up here?"Taylor looked up, astonished. Was this even allowed? To be asked to stand in the middle of court, next to that loathsome lawyer and the embarrassing video screen. How had he even known about those videos? She looked around for some kind of help but there was none. Every male face seemed to be looking from the screen to her, their faces hardened. Her parents looked mortified and angry. The judge's voice boomed out,"Miss Mayes would you hurry up and take your.