Good thing we weren't paying her by the hour or she'd break us. She took a glass of juice but went upstairs with it. I heard some raised voices shortl... after she got up there. I guess Nancy was trying to exert her authority and Sam was fighting her on it.Mom washed and I dried. She looked real good today. I know I felt good about our talk. I guess it did her a lot of good, too.I took a nice long shower and put on some tight shorts and a pink T-shirt with some rhinestones on it. Full of good. In fact, a couple of the men here are asking if there is going to be any attempt to salvage more plants and animals from Earth. The Sa'arm pretty much strip a planet bare, so if they land and hold out for a few years, they could devastate the ecology for generations.I know, I'm writing about depressing things, but anything to keep from thinking about what Lily has gone through. Erica and I do try very hard to allow our concubines to be family members. Sure they can't leave the planet without an. I waited for her beside the bed of nettles that I’d been having her cultivate for months.” He relaxed back in his chair, so far as the restraints allowed, enjoying himself.Alexandra crawled over the nettles, wincing and chewing at her lip, then lay down slowly and deliberately. She was already gasping desperately with her sweet face twisted into a grimace of sheer agony when Dmitri put one foot to the small of her back and pressed her down hard. Her whole body from shoulder to knee was cruelly. I stayed hard and Hailey soon found just the right spot to take her to her reward. I was worried Brent might start banging the wall; from where I was the mattress seemed awfully noisy. It must have been just my imagination though as Hailey came, and collapsed onto me, without interruption.We lay together for a little while and then she carefully climbed off of me. I tidied up and, with a few tender kisses, we settled down to really sleep.I woke to answer my phone. "Three p's have phoned. I took.