A queen sized bed. A small desk. A couple sets of drawers. An armoire. “It’s our guest room,” Essie explained, almost apologizing.“It’ll do ...ine,” I smiled.“We have a couple others,” she told us. “One in the other half of the townhouse on this floor. One in the basement in Eddie’s area. I heard you met Eddie.”“I did,” I said. “This is really fine, Essie.”“There’s a bathroom next door. You’ll be sharing that with my mother, Joanne.”“Okay.”Essie sat. “Do you know about our arrangements here? Our. Web showed me where I would be sleeping a nice cabin all to myself then told me about my duties. I then found out that he took in runaway kids to this ranch and help them get backTo a straight life. Within two days I found out that this was not the story, that he was making sex slaves out of them and selling the kids off. The third day Mr. Web came to my room one night and said he needed to talk to me about work, I thought oh shit I’m fired. He then told me that he trusted me and. ” They had been returning daily emails for three weeks now, and both of them had relaxed a lot. She described herself to him, leaving out the slight droop to her breasts and the little post-pregnancy tummy that would not go away (“no need to tell him all my secrets”). She told him what city she lived in and discovered he lived nearby. She had decided that the city was big enough that he could never find her anyway. She had even told him about the little things that aroused her, things that made. The initiation of a friendship with Malcolm had been born in logic. Once she and her mate had helped Malcolm and Hoshi enter a romantic relationship, keeping a distance from Malcolm had become illogical as he was the closest friend of her mate. The dynamic had changed during their time on Vulcan, especially during the Tolaris trial when Malcolm had proven what sacrifices he was willing to make for her sake.These events and the almost daily joint dinners, whenever their two ships were in the.