" You cancelled your trip, didn't you?" Yes. I thought and thought about us, Josh, and we just don't work, not anymore, not like we did before I left ...ome. Since then, I've... I don't know, I've grown, I guess. I've located an exceptional artifact..."My heart felt like it had suddenly turned into stone."Shall I tell Mother or will you call her." I'll tell her. I'll be flying to New Zealand day after tomorrow. We can still talk, Josh, every day, if you want." I love you, and I'll always love. After all, Mercedes didn't know how the Virus might have affected the mousy professor. And it was not Robert's hands she was worried about.Weeks later things were getting dicey.Events on the outside certainly gave Mercedes and her team plenty of motivation. The scientists were horrified to see how quickly the Virus was turning society upside down. Plastic surgeons were practically out of business, except for women of eighty and ninety who were desperate to attract younger lovers. Surgeons able. ..at the mercy of all. The world around her only visible within her mind.From the solace of the shadows he had watched. He liked the comforting cloak of the shadows in the pit of the night to lend its mood to the debauchery of the rooms. For debauchery was best indulged in the night, in the darkness with only the pale flickering of candles to illuminate his desires. He had watched as one after another the men had come to sample the girl chained to the floor. For a new slave had to be tested.. Walking what I felt was a fine line, I told her I thought she was beautiful and had a wonderful body. Any man would have to be nuts to think otherwise. This opened her up a little more and the conversation evolved into a discussion of what we liked and didn't like about the opposite sex and stuff like that. I had been with a couple of girls from school and we talked vaguely some of the things we liked during sex. The whole time my dick was in a kind of semi-hard constantly leaking frenzy,.