‘Shut up and play some music,’ I demanded of the DJ crossly. I stepped into the shower, welcoming the hot waters caress like a gentle lover. It e...sed the dream from my eyes, but like other lovers I had sought, it did not erase the memory of him from my mind. From our first kiss, he held me in thrall. I could say ‘no,’ but I could never mean it. The DJ finished chattering, and I recognized the beginning notes of The Foo Fighters’ LONG ROAD TO RUIN. I smiled to myself. I loved when the universe. I stop the motions of my hand and just hold my fingers in place, pressed against your g-spot as you ride the waves of your orgasm. When you finally come down, I slowly slide my fingers out of you, bring my hand to my mouth, and lick some of your juices off of my fingers. I bring my fingers to your mouth to offer you a taste. You hungrily suck the remainder of your sweet honey from my digits.I slide lower on the bed, and move your legs open wider. I move myself between your legs, place my hands. Ashley glimpsed the cold intensity of the Lady of Oak Leaf in her mother’s hard certainty. Here was a woman who could make decisions that would save or doom her seat and family. Here was a woman, necessity demanding, who could force someone out from hospitality. Ashley wondered how soon she would be in that position. She hoped some day to be as well regarded as the Lady Celeste.Celeste took a breath and loosed her tension. “That shall not spring from this occasion; Dolphin Frolicking knows her. I will be going at the end of this month, March. Maybe you could go in June, then me late September or early October and you around the first of the year. That’ll be doubling what we have been doing so far,” he said. “Then we just recycle the same schedule thereafter,” he said. She nodded.“What about telling him. I mean... ?” she said.“I don’t have the balls. Down the line. When it feels right,” he said. “And, no I have no clue when that would be. But for sure it’s not now, not for a long time.