‘The way I see it is,’ I explained, ‘that the girls I’ve acquired so far, or most of them anyway, are all special. In pride of place there’s...you, you’re my wife, I love you dearly and always shall.’ I bowed low to her. ‘Fran and Connie are more like close friends. All right,’ I conceded, ‘I know I fuck them a lot but that’s not the point. I can talk to them in an easy and natural way and although they’re very different they both have splendid qualities that I really value. And then there’s. “What a comfy, familial scene this is.”“Come join us,” Gracey said.Liya responded by putting her left arm behind her back and grimacing, saying, “Well, if I must,” after which she took a grinning, running leap and landed right by me. I rolled the rest of the way over to her and wrapped her in my arms and kissing her forehead.“What’s going on?”We all looked at Brett as he responded, “We’ve been having something of a ... bonding thing, talking about the us that is not quite more than a large. You and Robert have a lot in common; you're both educated people and smart as hell. You two have a lot more in common than you and I ever did. You'd think that with all of those brains though, one of you would have had the class to just tell me. I'd have wished you both the best and it wouldn't have had to be like this. I mean it makes sense, you two are near geniuses and I'm just a broken down ex-navy guy who likes to dive and look for shit. Maybe if you'd done it right we could have stayed. " Master. What do you mean? What customer?" she dared to ask."This Officers' Brothel," he said, "Customers come you make them happy. Otherwise whipping."After he had left she sat on the divan and wept. She had been bought for a brothel when she had thought the Colonel was to be her Master. Well he was, but she was just a prostitute and would have to live there at the beck and call of anyone who had the price of an hour of her time. Half an hour later the Colonel entered the room again and.