I can not forgive her, but I hope you can. Johnny."A shaky scrawl appeared across the bottom of the note. "I never meant to hurt him, I swear it. Plea...e, believe me. I can never face any of you again, and I have nowhere else to go. Roberta."Steve shook his head. Unless he missed his guess, Johnny had been gay, and Roberta and possibly some of the others hadn't been able to accept that, and had tried to 'change' him. It sounded like Roberta had tried the direct approach, and it had been too much. But she keeps trying to kill me. I can't just let her go. However, I might have a solution," I told Jorslan."I will listen," he said in a neutral voice."My whole problem with her is that she has too much power, and no sense of responsibility. Remove her power from her, and I will let her go," I said with finality.Melissa, who had been listening, gasped. She started to curse me. Jorslan told her to be silent, and miracle of miracles, she was!"This would appease you?" Jorslan asked me."That, and. They stood as they had been instructed, silent, motionless, eyes cast down. Freddie was pleased. Andrea had done a good job. He liked it when the stock did as it was told.Freddie, ever the good host, saw to his friends' drinks and guided each of them to the lots he felt would most interest them. "Narod, something interesting for you," he enthused, steering the man towards Judy. "You said you were hoping for something with a little more covering." Freddie pulled open the front of Judy's cloak. "Anybody home?" she called out to her roomie. "I'm in here," came the reply from the bedroom, "come on in, I have something to show you!Laura dropped her brief case on the chair next to the desk and quietly opened the bedroom door. When her eyes adjusted to the dim conditions they almost popped out of her head, because their on the bed totally naked was beautiful Bobbi while standing in the middle of the room was a device that literally took her breath away! "Happy birthday," Bobbi said with a.