I put my life into her big, hard hands. I told her everything about myself from birth to the moment we met. Steve was intrigued by my privileged life,...but even more by my sexual history. My revelatory change from straight to lesbian, the orgies, the rock stars who had fucked me, the magic summer with Tori and David. My descriptions of the House in the Woods excited her very much, made her jealous and hot for me. I learned to tell the stories well, and invent new scenarios where she joined. You know." 'Fuck her,' mom. Can't you say 'fuck?' Steve was fucking her." Still, Dru was momentarily sobered."I'm just so worried, sending you off like this, dear. Besides not knowing what you're up against, you don't have much time. If you don't find Diana or at least take Diana's place until you do, Paradise Island is doomed," Drucillia's mother fretted."Huh?" Dru asked. "How could my failure in the World of Men -- not that I'm going to fail -- harm Paradise Island?" I've never told you or. At the time I was a woman without obligation for 36 years, lives alone and feel like after a single and divorced, and I had my fantasies with young men and potent. I just walked out of the house I headed to a taxi station at about a street away from the house. drunk before going out there a two glasses of wine and a little liquor, I had a craving for fools, as I was walking on the street in a complete silence is and quite late about 1 am, hear the noise of the car approaching car headlights and. ”“Your trip to South America?”“I suspect so,” I said. “At least in part.”“I think the answer is easy then - you picked up something on your trip and you can’t quite seem to shake it, so you’re taking it easy. Are you working at all?”“Penny was here Thursday and Friday working with me. I’ll be working remotely on Monday and Tuesday, and I’m sure she’ll be here as well.”“Then I think that’s the answer,” Charlie said. “Claire?”“Agreed. Though I’d like to help in his recovery!”I chuckled, “As much.