But I doubted that a woman that was so obviously pregnant would now go for sex with a stranger. And then came by Ronnie and whispered in my ear these ...agnificent words: "She's single, and she's spending the night here". She then winked at each one of us, and went on to entertain some of the other guests.When I came back to sit on the large sofa next to Angela, I held her hand and said I had heard a rumor that she was single. She confirmed it with a coy smile, leaving her hand in mine. We talked. Grandpa Seth would have beaten her severely. As ornery as Cade had been lately, she figured he wouldn't hesitate to do the same. He had yet to whip her over anything and she was not anxious for him to do so. "I don't know what I did," Ashley said in anguish. She had tried to fade into the background at school and not make trouble. None of the other students talked to her at all or wanted anything to do with her.Cade pulled her trembling form over to an old bench in the garage and sat down next. I suddenly got hard, and I had to sit down for a second before it subsided enough for me to walk away without making a spectacle of myself. Five o’clock eventually came around, and with it the end of the day’s sessions. I had a bite to eat, went upstairs, got a drink out of the Servi-Bar and called my wife. We talked for a bit, she put the kids on, and she said a loving goodbye. Hadn’t had a lot of those lately, I thought. I nodded off watching the TV, and woke up about 8. I decided to get a. .."Béla turned and glared, stopping her adoring consort in mid-sentence, then, voicing a deep, long sigh, closed her eyes to let a handmaiden vigorously begin brushing her fresh-washed and dried, silky dark hair.After a time, the ladies-in-waiting were done with her. Her consort looked at her, radiating pride and admiration. He walked his goddess across the room to the mirrored wall behind the entrance and let her look at the results of the pampering she'd been forced to endure.Béla stood in.