My dad had packed the car and my mom shoved a plastic bag of clothes into my clenched fist, all the while rushing herself and me into the car. They dr...pped me off at the end of Derek's street, I seriously considered running back home and staying there for the rest of the week. That would be fun, lying around for a whole week; not worrying about anything, just eating and sleeping. No. I couldn't do that, Derek and Jordan might get into trouble - then Derek might not talk to me again and I. And then i knew that she had crossed her inhibitions.....i paused and waited to gasp for some air......when she tried pushing my head again. I told her wait.....for us to cintinue there wud be some rules, she was confused now.....we had broken all rules and now i was defining rules...She asked what rules? And i said, firstly you will call me by name till we are together alone, secondly u wl not wear any clothes for next 2 days, thirdly i want u to whatever i ask u while we have fun, no. The newest of the King's concubines, the exquisite Lindelia, would be arriving here soon. She'd been captured, a spoil of war - a minor quarrel really - with the neighboring kingdom it was said, and thus delivered to King Erdon for his perusal.There had been much whispering about the girl Lindelia. And many of those whispers were quite obviously false. One such whisper stated that should a man choose to walk a complete circle about the entire known world, his distance traveled would not come. And, with the family’s tobacco import connections in Brazil and India, the Farewell’s empire stretched across the globe. The vast Farewell wealth made it possible for the two youngest Farewells, Justine and her nere-do-well older brother, Jason, to behave like petulant royalty without fear of suffering the consequences. Of the two youngest Farewell heirs, Justine was the most obvious instigator. A heiress femme fatale by profession, the streets of Raleigh were virtually strewn with the bodies.