.. starting a family. Rebecca was still a bit ambivalent about the whole kids thing, but she was open to trying, and had gone off birth control a few ...onths ago. She took the sex where she could get it though, and tried to make the most of it when Steven was in the mood. But he really wasn't making it easy for her. His arousal seemed entirely unrelated to anything Rebecca did or said, and he almost never initiated anything outside of the bedroom. And even during sex, Rebecca was finding herself. "She dropped her head in defeat, but nodded for him to continue."How does your husband make you feel?"She fought down the instinct to try to form the "right" words, and just started talking. "He makes me feel like a subordinate, like I'm an employee who provides good service to him. Kind of like how he refers to Jean, his assistant. Jean manages his office; I manage his home. She gets his coffee and schedules his lunch reservations; I cook his supper. She keeps his life organized; I birthed and. What I sent her into ... I’m afraid I lost myself.”“You owe me no apologies, Radu,” Vondi groused. “If anything, I’m angrier at myself than you could possibly be. I vetted those men and women. I checked and re-checked. I went through the list of our top Imperial Guard. I went through the list of our top Red Guard. How could I have possibly been so wrong?”“A question for another day,” Radu said grimly. “Though I will be changing the evaluation of our guard. All of our guard, Red, Imperial, Army. The sun was still hot and had cast an orange glow on the forest around them. They had all worked up a sweat and discussed whether the water would be nice enough to swim in. Unanimously the answer was ‘yes’. They had brought no swimwear so the men just stripped to their boxers and Emma to her bra and sexy shorts. She looked stunning as she stretched to take off her top and all three of the guys couldn’t resist staring. John grabbed some beers from the cooler and handed them out, then they all.