"Your husband picked out the outfit for you to wear in front of me? Does he know I am black and we are going to be by ourselves?" Thomas asked."Yes he...did and being black does make a difference to him. Sometimes I don't tell him everything." Karen said."Well Karen why don't you go change in the bathroom into your modeling outfit. I am dying to see what other taste your husband has. I will have another drink ready for you when you come out. "Karen got up and gave Thomas a kiss on the cheek. Her. The townspeople were nervous and the nervousness translated into often inane chatter. As nerves strained further, the talks often led to arguments. No one, however, had the temerity to take those arguments further; all of them understood they would likely be forced to fight soon enough. Sir Givens stood in the center of the room, looking around at the men, women and children who’d been his neighbors for so long. He wondered, as he often had before a battle, how many of them he’d lose in the. He found the control. He stopped the sleeve."Ohhh," she said, "ahhhhh, that's better." She came down off her toes.He pushed another semi-hidden control which peeled back a thumbhold of the sleeve. He eased it out of her, sliding it back into her crack, like you were supposed to do when you no longer needed it."Ahhh, gooood," she said.She collapsed on the sofa beside him."I was so scared. It was a weird, crazy feeling - like having it done." It looked like it was fun," he grinned. He enjoyed. Seeing so many costumed young people made him feel better about missing the party.His stepdaughter was at a party so he was alone and he was glad of it. The sexual tension between them had become almost unbearable these last few months. Bethany was only one when he met her Mom and he adopted her shortly after they were married.For the first fourteen years, they had a normal Father/ Daughter relationship and he helped with all the chores of raising a child while his wife was in her final year of.