As I spoke, I realized the voice wasn't asstrange as I had first thought. It actually sounded like I'd alwayswished. "While I love the way my voice so...nds, I think it'd be best tochange it back now." The change can be as easily undone as it was done, but why would youwant your voice changed back?" People would think it's a bit odd when they saw a man speaking with awoman's voice." Who says you're a man?"The tiniest flicker of hope, a hope I'd never dared allow myself toacknoledge, fluttered to. " Got it," Cynara nodded gravely, but Finley was lost in his own little world."Earth to Finley," Cynara poked him. Finley seemed startled to be pulled out of his thoughts."Who were you just staring at?" Cynara asked mischievously."No one!" Finley scoffed.Cynara rolled her eyes and scanned the room in the direction Finley had been looking a few moments ago."Was it that petite blonde that just walked in?"Finley nervously cleared his throat, "Why would you think that?" Ooh, Finley has a crush,". Don Antonio left first, but not before he and his mother had been invited for dinner that very evening. Eleanor accompanied him to the door when he left.She returned to the dining hall with a furious blush and expecting a merciless teasing. In her absence however, Sir Anthony had asked everyone to leave her in peace and they complied. Ellen was to convey a dinner invitation to the Wilkes, and she left too. Before she left she hugged a reluctant Eleanor and whispered in her ear.“He is a. “Feeling better, brother darling?” she asked. I could only nod. We spent the day just milling about the apartment in bathrobes not bothering to dress, grazing from the pantry and occasionally fucking when the mood struck. I think we must have fucked in every room of the house. It was as if we were making up for lost time. “We should have done this years ago,” Kerry said, her head nestled into my shoulder. We were laying on the sofa in the lounge room. “Yes but did we dare? “ I reflected on.