"Don't you girls go getting your panties gooey," she said inher deep pitched voice. "We have some important things to do today."Barbara released me to...put on her long silky red dress. I zipped up theback for her. It had short sleeves, a scooped neckline and a tight anklelength skirt that was slit up the front to just above the knees. Barbaraput her watch on her left wrist as I put on mine, actually Carol's goldRolex. I wore several white bangle bracelets on my right wrist asBarbara placed a. I let him fuck whom he wants, so I get to fuck whom I want. We're only married because he asked." You should have stayed unmarried like Aunt G," Sarah suggested.Kate shook her head. "I'm not one hundred percent like my mother. I love Chris, so I married him. These other guys are just ... guys." She made a dismissive wave. "You'll understand when you find someone."My mother tells me the same thing, Erika thought. She and my father were both hippies before they found each other and Scientology.. Making love outside always does that to you at first, because of your Baptist upbringing, but it's one of the reasons, one of the many reasons I love you so much.I tell you that. I tell you I love you, that I will always love you, until our bodies are so much cosmic dust and our souls reside in some other plane for eternity. You call me silly and slip your dress the rest of the way off.We continue to dance, you beautiful and naked and me still fully clothed. This has always warmed me. Like you. "He stalked out.Why he was hanging on to her, she didn't know—and to be honest—she didn't really care anymore. This night would be it for her. There was no way she would return willingly to his holding to the south, where he would likely torture her at his leisure. She was going to force his hand and go out on her own terms.The evening meal started peaceably enough. They'd made their formal entrance and she smiled suitably. Once they approached the table, though, Daphne made her first.