Shopping over we returned home.I went to my room to undress while Hema made for the kitchen saying that she was going to make tea. After changing I we...t to the kitchen to have my cup as was the normal rule of the house- no room service. I received the shock of my life, the tea was an excuse. Hema was changing, she had just removed her skirt and blouse and was standing in her panties.She had her back to me and I could not get a peek at her exposed breasts. She put on a slip and nighty which we. The house has a silence about it, a silence that seems to resent activity. From inside, you can hear the soft sounds of a living community around it, but these come only faintly. No sign of living occupants show on these hollow walls, these barren floors. But if you are very still, the kind of stillness that reminds one of a mouse frozen, straining for the sounds of gliding wings in the night, you can hear breathing. This breathing is shallow, so slow you would swear the breather was drawing. I can’t go into details but it’s all very complicated. They know what we’re up to, we know what they are doing, and we try not to bother each other.”The thought that her dad was somehow equal to these maniacs, and had no real authority over them, as well as Scooter sounding so smart, and being one of the clubs officers, was making Alyx more comfortable somehow. She finished her beer and handed the empty mug to Scooter. “Can you drink? I mean, am I gonna catch a furnishing charge tonight?”“I. He could see his grandmother telling the story.“When I was a kid, my parents travelled a lot,” Edmonds continued. “My father inherited his father’s oil business so he was gone a lot. That meant I spent a lot of time with both sets of grandparents. I was 16 when a big company bought us out. You know how that goes. I’ve read a lot about Barton Holdings in the past few months. Except the oil company didn’t handle the takeover the way your family would have. Everyone affiliated with Edmonds.