Hawk sat between his two wives and held them both close to his chest. Their relationship had progressed to the point where one could almost sense one ...eating heart, rather than three.Brenda answered the knock at the door. Hawk and Maria stood at her side; it was her Aunt, after all. The first to enter were the hotel staff, pushing several carts of food and beverages. Following them were Beth and Zed Andrews, Deke Templeton, and Elizabeth Johnson. This was the group that had listened to Brenda’s. ” I stepped back and she took them down slowly over her hips, and I saw her hairs and her gap and her legs, then she stepped out of them and we were naked in front of each other. She took my hand and led me to the bed. I expected her to tell me to lie down for her like I had to for Uncle Reg. Instead she lay down on her back. “Kneel beside me.” When I did that she said, “I’m the first lady you’ve seen. So you can look at me anywhere and touch anywhere so you can see how a lady. ‘I did.’ ‘I’m sorry, I forget your name.’ ‘Lauren Hatfield, how are you doing Carson?’ He was a little surprised that she recalled his name. ‘I’m great actually.’ ‘Twenty-eight, ninety-four.’ The checker smiled. Lauren swept her check card through and fiddled with the buttons. ‘What have you been up to?’ ‘Um, I’m teaching at the new junior high. Yourself?’ Lauren politely hated referring to herself as a teacher, but with Paul at the other campus nearly all day, she and Jo made all the decisions. I thought to start my pleading but there was too great a lump in my throat so all I could manage was a sob no better than Theodora. He worked his hand deep into my hair and took a firm grip, ‘Now we shall see if either of you is worth keeping around,’ he said, and again in a blink we were transported, this time to the throne room which had never seemed so cold and forbidding to me before. I had made some changes to the throne room, on the central dais I had placed a fairly large, well-padded,.