”Braygon frowned. “Coimbatore was once part of the Kingdom of Mysore, but after the overthrow of Tipu Sultan the kingdom was dismantled. Coimbator... and the surrounding area is ruled directly by the East India Company, and the Governor, Guthrie Rilversed, reports directly to Calcutta. The deputy-governor of Coimbatore District is Jeremiah Corbinn, who has powerful friends in Calcutta. The word of an African girl and a deceased Frenchwoman will not have any influence with them!”“Corbinn has a. Unless we go outside.” I realised I was babbling like an idiot.“You live here on your own?”“I recently split from my wife. For the time being I’m enjoying my freedom, and you?”“It’s just me rattling about in that big house but I often have company staying for a few days so it’s not too bad.”“Do you work?” I asked, wondering if I was prying too much.“Ahhhh …,” she said and paused, looking at me, assessing me. She seemed about to be making some sort of revelation.“My ‘job’,” she said, putting air. Wow, we spent three hours in Costco and then we headed for Graton.Maria came out and helped unload her order. I actually got everything she asked me to get. She looked at me and smiled, "I figured that the Squadron will be here most days this week. I got simple things the Squadron can prepare for lunch and dinner. I will have had enough KP at Teddy's. For instance, tonight's dinner will be spaghetti, garlic bread, coleslaw and chocolate cake."Maria was right. We would probably have the squadron. Daddy loved his porn and would casually leave one in the video player, then leave me to my own devices when he went out to the pub, somehow I think he did it on purpose, knowing I would watch, but back then there was just him and I, and we were developing a very strange father daughter relationship.These were my formative years and my sex education was based on these porn flicks I watched, and at night I would lie and listen to my father jack off, and end up doing it also, in fact sometimes.