Charles turned up the sound and sat back to listen.The news wasn't good. There had been massive deaths that morning, not only locally but from around ...he world. Government officials in every country were reporting that their countries had suffered enormous losses. No country could give a firm number at the moment, because emergency services were still searching for victims, but the reports placed a conservative estimate at over three million dead.That caused Charles to sigh heavily and shake. ”“I heard you got engaged, so what’s with the wedding band?”“Traditionally, both the guy and girl wear engagement rings in the Orthodox Church, and they’re just simple bands like the one I’m wearing.”“No diamond?”“No diamond.”“Why would you get engaged even before you graduate?”“Why not?” I asked.“Tying yourself down when college is supposed to be fun!”“It has been fun, for the most part,” I replied. “And I don’t feel ‘tied down’. I mean, you’re what? Eighteen or nineteen?”“I’ll actually be. She now had her breasts arched upward and those incredible legs pushed straight outward.“Stomach,” Liz said, laughing now. “Holy shit. I came so hard my stomach muscles cramped. I’m seriously out of shape.”“We’ll work on it,” I said. I got up and sat down beside her, running my hand over her flat stomach. I couldn’t help but delve a little higher to her breasts and then lower to the V where her legs met.“You are terrible,” Liz said, grinning at me. I used the back of my arm to wipe her. She excels in every area one could ever ask for, and by now I know her programming as well as I know my own. However, she's not available even for a task of this importance and I will not ask it of her.Hard as my search was for my own successor at Lady Heather's House, this one is tougher. And even after I realized that an assistant and Consort did not have to be my designated Successor as well, that still didn't make the choice much easier. I was sure that such a person — human or robot —.