Maybe I just need an assistant editor. Suck me! So… by now you might be wondering whatever happened to the ‘other’ in my life, in this chapter. ...atience dearie, it’s all in the ride, in the slow arcing curves, the slow burn, the ‘getting there’, which is the whole point of this exercise. She is here, there… out there, trust me. I’ve met her. Met her in dreams, met her in life. She was the extreme opposite of what I had ever known, and finally my own patience was about to pay off. The years I. ‘Nope. I just talked to the ship’s doc and made sure that the pain medication also had something in it to make her drowsy. In the state she was in, she needed the sleep.’ ‘Tricksey little Hobbit!’ Lisa said, standing up with a soft clapping of her hands. ‘Remind me to watch you more closely. I need a drink,’ she declared. ‘Name your poison! Drinks are on the house.’ ‘I’ll just take a coke, if you don’t mind,’ I said. ‘I’ll be keeping an eye on Gretchen tonight and I don’t want to muddle my. I was reallystarting to hate marble floors. And this one is shiny which really accentuatesmy heels, as if most people's eyes got that far down. Quickly I slipped intothe nearest elevator and rode up to the 12th floor. The key fit and for amoment I felt safe. I looked around and at first saw nothing unusual. I thenopened the door to the walk in closet looking for the maid outfit and there' wasa chair facing the door with a tape recorder and a note on it. The note saidREAD ME NOW . I still had no idea who was coming. I was pretty nervous about this. Inthe two months since Will had moved in, while neighbors may have wondered aboutthis black guy staying with us, no one had yet seen us in the new relationship. Tonight was to be the first time my subservience would be seen by others. It wasalso the first time that whoever was coming over would see that my white wife wasbeing kept by a black man, and I was helpless to do anything about it. Also, Iwas ordered to remain naked.