" Eve agreed with me and we drank."Nice wine." I commented."Thank you. I chose it myself. Not from Aubrey's cellar, but from the local shop." Your cho...ce is impeccable."The first half of the concert was thoroughly enjoyable, especially as when I glanced across at Eve, she was sitting spellbound the excitement plain on her face. Live music does tend to do that. When you see someone enjoying the spectacle as much as Eve was, it is contagious. It made me sad to think that she had been denied this. "Would you care to spin aroundfor us, Lucia-n?" she asked.He refused to oblige, raging inwardly at her cool and patronizingresponse."Anyway," Ms. Fontaine went on. "I do hope, Lucian that this is not aneffort to look like a boy. You cut your delicious hair, which is anawful shame, but all it does is making you look like a sweet, cheekyFrench gamin. You might call it a tommy-boy look, but honey, you are waytoo girly to pull that off, didn't you know?"Someone giggled - a few others followed."Ah,. She jumped out of her bed, checked quickly on her still slumbering child and rushed into her lodger's room. She found Jack lying in his bed weeping inconsolably. "Are you all right? Are you ill?" I'm dying," Jack moaned. "I've discovered tumors. I'm sure they're cancerous." The unfortunate young man wept even harder and exposed his chest to the startled landlady."They look like breasts," Helen said finally after having a close look at the "tumors." Don't be ridiculous," Jack huffed. "I'm a man.. ?Keep sucking,? one of the boys said, and she ran her lips along his shaft. That settled him, like it usually did. When he finally came, he pulled her head away from his crotch and sprayed her face, causing more laughter, before making her lick him clean and start over again on his replacement in the back seat. And so it went all night until, she suspected, she had earned the money Ken kept from her.Just a whore, she thought bleakly, looking down at the papers she began to grade. A useless.