Slowly asmile appeared.'You've turned him into a girl.''He even sounds like a girl don't you step daddy, now do asI said and apologise to Shane for be...ng so nasty to him.'I listened to Emily and with a quiver in my voice said thatI was sorry to the boy. He broke up laughing as he heard myvoice.'Wow, you have really done a good job on him, nobody wouldknow that he was really your miserable step dad, he reallyis like a little school girl.' He looked at me again andsaid, 'My little sister is only. “Not with you, I guess,” she said finally. “You’re different than most adults. You don’t talk to me like I’m a kid. My parents would never even think about talking about sex with me.”“Well, it sure makes me uncomfortable,” he said.“Oh,” she said. She sounded sad. “I’ll stop, then.”“You don’t have to stop,” he said, feeling like he had cut her off at the knees. “It just seems strange, talking to a sixteen year old girl about ... things like this.”“You said I looked sexy,” she said,. ”We all drifted off to sleep and awoke to the morning sun streaming through the window. I roused myself and ordered the baths readied for the emperor and his companions. While they were bathing I readied the emperor’s clothes. He returned from the bath and I helped him put on his toga.“No need for shoes today,” he informed me as I took hold of his sandals. “A deity prefers bare feet.”Indeed, I had noticed that the statues of Roman gods, including the emperors before Lucius, were almost all. "Now there is a mature and intelligent remark," I said.He tried to stand but I said, "Sit your ass down and behave." I said menacingly."And if I decide to slap the shit out of you?" He asked."I told you I will put a hole through your heart." That time I let him see the derringer."Damn, please come with us, you are as bad ass as they say," he whined."Fuck off," I said."How about me?" The daughter named Chrissy asked."Another time honey, I imagine Brian needs his ego stroked," with that I stood.