If it doesn't work, it'll prove that something is wrong with ... me."Nadia whispered the last word."It won't matter. It won't happen." You're sure?" a...ked Nadia."I double checked the equipment. You followed my dietary suggestions?" Yes." Well rested?" Yes." But not over-rested?" asked Penny."Yes." You watched the videos I sent you?" Yes," said Nadia."Those should have laid a foundation, made you more receptive." They didn't trance -" started Nadia."They weren't supposed to," interrupted. He admired the view of it, and the fact that her underwear dangled between her knees added an element of sluttiness to it. It was almost like the picture she'd sent. Of all of them, that was the one that turned him on the most. "As you said," Taylor continued leisurely. He then recited the line from one of her e-mails. "You're a very naughty student who badly needs to be taught a lesson." "Mmm, yes, Dr. Cheavis," Jess agreed, playing along. "I'm a very bad student. Please teach me." Taylor. Even indecent ones." All we really know about you is that you're a high school graduate and that you're good in bed." That was Priscilla."Isn't being good in bed enough?" The ladies giggled and shook their heads."It's a good start," said Rose. "C'mon, Max. It's not that hard. We're here to help."Maybe easy for them, but not for me. After a moment of panic I started telling them about video games I liked to play and why I liked them. I stretched that out for half an hour. That seemed to. I mean emotionally." I saw the look on your face when she was talking about some of the things she does for battered women," Carrie said. "It was actually sort of cute. I could see the epiphany develop." That Elizabeth is a hoot, isn't she?" I asked not so much to change the subject to but redirect it."She is exactly like you said she was," Carrie told me. "But I can see where she might be considered a dragon lady if you pissed her off." Oh, yeah," I said in my best Kool-Aid voice. "Which is.