She's having her first gallery show. Featuring seventeen drawings of Ed's naked tush." She'll make a mint on them," Ed grinned.The rest of lunch prett... much went like that, so Cassie and I just got drawn into the rest of the conversation.The afternoon passed by way too slowly. Then I had baseball practice. Because I was pitching tomorrow, I was allowed to take a light practice. I threw a little, and did my running. Then, done, I asked Coach permission to take off, which he granted.I ran back to. One hundred gold coins a month? What man was going to turn down freedom and a veritable fortune in gold? Falkren stood up and said, "Mistress, I think I speak for all of us, when I ask… What do you want us to do for all of this?" The other men nodded in agreement, as well. "Well…" I take another sip of my iced tea , prolonging the moment again, as I make them wait. "I have chosen the three of you, because the three of you are unattached, very clean, good workers, and, as far as I can tell …". It wasn't a coincidence. "I've missed you, Pam," he said as we briefly hugged each other. "Can we, you know, duck out the back?" And we did.We talked for a while. Jerome's marriage had gone south when they both started cheating. "She was never as much fun as you, Pam." We embraced and started kissing. His hand wandered over my chest and then down to my knee. I'd been a good girl most of my marriage, except for the two lapses I've already told you about. But darn it all, I couldn't believe how. She felt old, that was it. When she had tried to talk to Albert about it he had mocked her, said she thought too much, and had started in on one of those lectures about how his father and his brothers never lay round moaning when they had the Farm to run, and how that was the trouble with city people, and so on. To which she would usually reply that if his father and his brothers had been so damned smart and hard-working, then why had they all had to walk off the farm and come to the city?.