Instead she pursed her lips and then chewed on them as if she was trying to keep herself from replying. Her face flushed red with anger as she sat in ...ilence, yet her eyes kept flickering towards where Pedro sat. Eventually the young woman gave Pedro an answer."We are whores," Zama told Pedro bluntly. "Do with us as you wish." I wish to free you and your friends," Pedro declared sharply in a tone that seemed to slap out at the young woman, "but you seem not to want my help. Why is that?"Again. "You and Pete," he said. "How did that start? Tell me all of it." Kathy fidgeted again. It would have been possible for her to lie and say that Pete had raped her.Her mother would have accepted that, and even Pete's father might have. But it would have hurt Pete a great deal-and for what? "Pete showed up last night," she said slowly. "I was alone in the house, and I invited him in. I liked him right away. We talked, and finally I decided I wanted to have sex with him." Ray's eyes narrowed. "Did. My credentials are a little unusual — the circles I run in rarely overlap with this crowd, but because I’m so slender and small I’ve been hired on as a curio. It’s not that I can’t dance. I can kill it up on stage with my fire poi and my barely-there little black leather ensemble. I can also take a lot of punishment, so to speak, and I heal quickly, which is another plus I can hold over my coworkers. Plus, the hiring staff can’t be impossibly fussy. They hire good people, and those people tend. All in all, I think these suites were both comfortable and luxurious. Each of my girls continued their school or employment and contributed the costs they had been paying for housing into a common pool. This was already more income per month than the mortgage payments on the property so I dumped the rest into a tax-free variable annuity with all of us as beneficiaries. This should add up to a tidy sum in a few years. I bought food, utilities, and various toys as my share.Vasotech had developed.