Mon p?re atoujours ?t? le grand absent de mon enfance, moi, Gabriel, ?lev? dans unmonde de femmes, de filles.Je pense que j'?tais un gar?on normal, al...rs. La campagne Normande ?taitassez classique, belle, presque ennuyeuse. Ma s?ur avait des amies, etj'allais souvent jouer chez elles. Cela permettait ? mes parents d'avoirun peu de temps pour eux. Je me rappelle m'?tre toujours beaucoupennuy?, au milieu des poup?es, des petits chevaux. Mes parents ?taienttr?s amis avec le pharmacien d'un village. .." Go on," I responded, part of me not really wanting him to."I... Well, I think I had a wet dream," he said, turning to face me witha pained expression on his face, the evidence of my indiscretion coveringthe front of his boxers in thick white globules. "I mean, I woke upcovered in... this, with a raging hard-on and all sorts of dirty thoughtsrunning through my head, so..."I knew I should tell him the truth, but I just couldn't. What if hedidn't react well? Despite all our time together I. Melinda's cheeks became scarlet. "What if I am?" she said in a quavering voice."Well, what's wrong with that? I think that's great. So why can't you tell him?" I ... it's ... l-look, can we go back to talking about the line?" Melinda said.Heather heard the desperation in her sister's voice. If time were not in such short supply, she'd press Melinda on the matter, but she had no idea how long her mother's protection against her Mistress' influence would hold. Already she had trouble keeping. The longer we talk the greater the chance of someone coming by and seeingus together. And we daren't have that. I'll leave first. Wait fiveminutes, then you leave via the back streets and return to the castle."And with that he was gone. - 12 -When I got back to Castle Rumstahl, I was surprised to see Heinrich thechauffeur in the courtyard, loading luggage into the Duesenberg. I wasabout to ask him why when Helmut appeared."Ah, Eva!" he said, giving me a big.