‘You don’t have to get over it alone, Simon. ‘I can help you.’ Caroline was blushing furiously and she looked down, then away from him to hide...it. ‘Caroline?’ she heard him say after a moment. ‘What do you mean?’ ‘I mean – I mean I’m not Marianne. I know it’ll be a problem because I look like her and all, but we’re different, inside. I wouldn’t hurt you like she did.’ ‘You want me to go out with you.’ ‘Yes,’ she replied on a breath, turning to face him once more. ‘Yes.’ ‘So I was right,. You’re going to let all of us be together as man and wife, aren’t you?”“If that’s what you want. You don’t have to, just because the others do, you know. You and Caleb go talk over all we’ve talked about. Keep it private too.“Caleb, find Micah and tell him I need to see him and Belinda.”“You’ll have a time with those two, Marshal. They’d be naked in the full daylight if they could,” Abigail told him.“You sisters and cousins tell each other everything, don’t you?”“Yep. It’s fun too. Especially. Why am I doing this? Who cares if I get fired? Because you like this job, stupid. I hear the door rattle lightly, turning. I tense and hold my breath as he enters. “You’re such a beautiful sight to see, Victoria. You’re so much more than I thought. You’re a good girl.” “Can I take off the blindfold? Please.” “No, you can’t. Not yet.” “Now you said your fantasy was to be fucked on the desk of Mr. Reed’s office desk. I want to help with that. Let me help you up.” He takes me by the arm,. Whether it’s the songs they sing (“Islands in the Stream” and “Afternoon Delight” come to mind) or Paula coquettishly suggesting that “you show me yours if I show you mine” is “nothing new” to them, the faint and unpleasant scent of childhood sex is never far away.Mind you, it is a faint scent, so faint that you’re never quite sure that you smelled it. There is never that revelation moment when one of them says “We have sex.” No, they say just enough that we adults wonder, “Did they mean what.