Now, do you understand me here?" I said."Please, can I at least get a word in edgewise," she said."Say it and say it fast. You're beginning to bore me..." I said."What if she did you?" she said."Huh?" I said."What if she slept with you? You know like you wanted that one time," she said."You said a lot more to each other than hello didn't you, Emilie," I said."Okay, yes. I—I—well, I wanted to break the ice. She was my best friend forever, and because I was stupid; well..." And, what if I said yes?. Of course, that talentneeded to be harnessed and put to work for females. While it would benice for you to have Erica at your beck and call, it will be so muchnicer to have Eric making money for me." Alexis tried to stand up. She was woozy, hot, and the room was spinning."I've made a few modifications of my own, you see. Eric, as Erica, isgoing to be your assistant. He'll be running things while you're onvacation. Quite smoothly, I'd bet. After all, it was his company." Lorna stepped back. “You’ve been alone ever since?”I nodded dumbly.“But why didn’t you go? If you were there, you should have gone? Shouldn’t you?”“I didn’t have any concubines, and in any case I wanted to help Talulah. Dad knew some about her, but not enough to do anything. I asked him for advice. If it hadn’t been for Talulah, maybe I would have gone, even though I didn’t have any concubines of my own.”Sandra frowned at me. “When did you tell your dad?”“The same day Talulah told me and Bondy. Back when you were. And my brain was still pretty much that of a 15 year oldboy. Oh. My.Sue stared at me, seeing my blushing state and jumping to a completelywrong conclusion. "Hello... um... wait. Who are you? What are you doinghere? Why are you wearing my gym gear?" She asked, pushing me to armslength, eyebrow raised suspiciously, turning to look at Reed."Huh?" I responded, confused as I looked down. These were her clothes? Iwas looking at my chest and, well, no bra, stray guilty thoughts, and,yeah, things were.