Amma’s is so happy here. I just want you to be with me like this.” She kept repeating those kinds of things as she ran her fingers through my hair...and her right hand patted me gently on my back. I turned my head a little so that my left cheek was against her chest pushing into the pudding-like softness of her breast, and I began to rub my right hand back and forth on her waist, which was now naked as her pallu had fallen off, moving it in small circles over her stomach, and then pulling softly. ‘What brought this on, Nellie?’ I asked quietly. And then it all came out. Apparently she had been asked out by a man, Sid the plumber, who had taken her to another pub. He’d introduced her to some friends and there was a lot of drink taken. One of the friends had said to Sid that he’d won and there was a lot of winking and nudging. Sid, when questioned, admitted he’d had a bet with a mate that he’d pull a bird with bigger tits than his friend. Nellie had poured her pint of Auntie Mary’s Old. My father is old and infirm and soon I shall be queen. And I demand a queen of my own not only in order to break the enchantment but also according to my natural inclinations. Do you understand me my sweet? I have loved you since I saw you in the arms of my, very gay by the way, brother dancing the waltz in those impossibly high heels. How could anyone but a natural queen accomplish such a task? It only remains for me to ask: Do you feel the same?”As the princess spoke she held Ash’s. She - I knew it was a girl by then - was my daughter. No matter who the son-of a-bitch was that left the sperm, she was still my daughter."Brad, to this day, I don't regret my decision. We tell people that I got pregnant to a boyfriend in college and that he was killed in an auto accident before we got married. No one knows the true story but Mom and Dad and now you. I'll understand if you have second thoughts about me. I had to tell you the truth if we were to go any further. All I ask is you.