.. well okay, whether I'd thrown him through the bloody thing.Shit, I really didn't realise that the pool was almost directly bellow that window; I'd ...ever been in that bedroom before.Anyway, I sort of withdrew into myself for a few months after that night. I probably kept myself to myself out of embarrassment, more than anything else. Shit, pissed-off with the bitch I might be, but I have to admit that Tracy was ... and still is, one of the best looking women in our circle of friends. Only. I heard her moving around quickly through the phone.“We’ll be there to pick you up as soon as we finish the dishes.”“Steph,” Sam said, suddenly still, her voice overflowing with emotion. “I’m so glad we met.”“I know. Me, too. I’ll see you in a bit.” I hung up to find Mom smiling at me.“I know. Me, too?“ she teased.Mom must have thought Sam told me she loved me! I had to admit I could see falling for her.“It’s not what you think,” I said with heat rising in my face. “She just said she was glad. I’ll grant your wish, on my conditions. You’ll be my concubine, my slave wife. When the child is weaned you’ll have a second child and live with me until that child is weaned. You’ll leave one child with me to raise and one will be raised by your parents. This means a minimum of three years as my concubine. You have until I’m ready to leave today to think on this, and to make a decision, I’ll not accept an answer before then.” She gulps, when I turn away her father grins at me.I go to Mr. "You know," he said to his friend Phil as he put down his pen. "I can't wait for this weekend to start."Phil looked at his partner and friend and said, "What kind of plans do you have?" I was thinking," Tom said scratching his head thoughtfully. "That I might go up to the lake this weekend after all it would be a chance to get away from this damn heat and humidity." For the last two weeks the weather had been so hot that the office AC was working overtime just trying to keep everyone cool. The.