”“I did want that but I didn’t want the baggage that goes with it. Your family would have disowned you and it’s likely my family would have do...e the same. I would definitely have lost my kids. Under those conditions, we would not have lasted.”“She’ll leave you one day. You know that don’t you. She’s priming you now for it. She’s working really hard to get you on-side to trust her and then she’ll pounce. You will be left with nothing but memories and most of those will be bad.”“I’ll have my job. To my discomfort and great shame, my manhood betrayed me, beginning to harden in lust, straining against my breeches. I didn’t understand what was happening. Her unsmiling lips suddenly turned upwards in a peculiar smile as if she somehow knew exactly the effect she was having on me.“Good evening, Vincenzo,” Leonardo said. “Let me introduce you to the Lady Lilah — she has just commissioned me to paint her portrait. She’s quite a vision for my canvas, is she not?”“Y…y…yes,” I stammered. He had been notified of a possible missing person case for Anita Carlton and had been charged by the mayor herself to investigate Anita's possible disappearance personally. Mayor Sharon Jackson was secretary of FRAGTD and third in charge of the Springfield chapter after Maria and Anita. Maria asked Sharon to look into Anita's disappearance because Anita hadn't missed more than one day's work at FRAGTD on over 15 years without explanation and now she's missed four days and she hadn't even so. Chapter one is mostly setup, and two is mostly planning. Chapter three is where the meat of the story begins. If you do start there, just know that the main character has an AI supercomputer and the ability to grow people in a lab with implanted memories so they believe they are fictional characters.Also realize that this story has plot and character development ... maybe not a huge amount, but enough that this is not a non-stop sex romp.As to why I wrote this story, while I sometimes enjoy.