The long slow, comfortable buildup of our relationship found us oneevening walking away from a good Indian restaurant, pleasantly full ofdupiaza and C...bra beer, bathed in moonlight and the warmth of being withsomebody I looked forward to seeing every day. The simple pleasure ofholding his hand filled my feet with barely controlled skipping."I hope you don't mind," he said, quietly and looking straight ahead."But I'm falling in love with you."With some effort I may have covered up the sharp gasp. "Dana, I want you to answer all of Amy's questions. We're going to make some important decisions based on what you tell us." Yes Master."I thought about leaving right then and there, except my curiosity was killing me."Dana, what's the deal with Professor Graf and you?" Master, I've been working in his lab for almost two years now, he's my doctoral advisor. About two months ago we slept together when we were working late. His wife suspects but I don't think has any hard evidence. We've been. Luckily she was there really because otherwise the sight of me with ten or so blokes would have been a disaster." Why would it have been a disaster?" Me with a dozen or whatever men? Not even Mark was that open."You see once he saw Amy, she was his. He completely ignored me and swept down on her like a vulture. For the rest of the night he was her's and I was open to whatever cock wanted me." How did you feel watching Mark with another woman for the second time in your life?" Yeah it was. "I didn't know anything they didn't already know," said Dawn. "I couldn't tell them anything new." Marigold knows more than they do," said Thule, "enough to wreck me if she went to them. I told her all of it, voluntarily and of my own free will, even though I started out wanting to exact revenge on her for what she did to Maya. I told her more that I've told anyone else." Because you're in love with her," said Dawn."Because I fucked her," said Thule, "and I'm stupid. Because I'm in love with.