We lay there for a while both breathing hard, she was stroking my back and I was still inside her but in no fit state to continue, if I was a boxer I ...ould have been counted out on my feet :o)Barb asked me to go check on Russ again, I understood her concern about him finding us, I hated the thought of that as well but didnt think there was any chance he would wake up but dutifully went and checked.When I come back Barb was no longer on the bed but I could hear her in the bathroom. I was pretty. "I see your resolve. Excellent." She was done with my hair. I felt so pampered, like never in my life. "I love it here. This is where I belong." I thought with delight. "I will embrace the pain when it comes." I looked at Ayala and was sure she knew exactly what I was thinking.She kissed my lips. "I've made this journey too." She whispered, turned and led me downstairs. My mind was racing, pondering all she had said. I knew I was intelligent and now I was also being shown how ignorant I was.. " Like what?" she asked.Looking at her I said, "Threesome, foursome, double penetration, spit roast, girl on girl. There's a whole world out there, Izzy." What's a spit roast?" she asked."Perhaps you'll find out one day, Izzy," chuckled Connie."How about now?" said Steve.Before anyone had a chance to answer I said, "No, it's gone 2 am and the k**s will be awake as soon as the sun comes up. Izzy and I are going to bed, you three are free to do whatever you want." Taking her hand I said, "Come on. Derek gathered that he would not need to go above the ground floor, as the middle and upper floors were where the staff worked and slept.There were the kitchens and associated pantries above the north wing, which housed a dining room only a little larger than the main mess hall in the Embassy. Over the west wing, where the formal reception rooms were, was a small infirmary and more store rooms; above those the junior eunuchs slept. The south wing was mostly taken up with a garage with room.