I provided daily supervision for their ranch hands and made sure that all of the important things got done. For this service, I was very well paid plu... I usually received a nice bonus at year's end if their ranch had turned a profit, and I always made sure they always did.I had most of my savings carefully banked, which was a good thing, since the minute Cynthia moved into my house I never could manage to set aside another penny.To use the popular term, Cynthia was 'high maintenance'. Daily. I thought perhaps if I could explain to him that I was a love goddess, that my life was dedicated to administering the Jewel of Liberation to the men I met. He was versed in Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultural history. Perhaps if he knew that I had been a virgin sacrifice . . . that I had served in the Temples of Ishtar, Isis, Aphrodite, Venus . . . Don’t ask me why I thought this would make any sense to this man. It made sense to me. But it prompted him to gasp with shock and begin to give me. .. and then devour the poor helpless host from the inside. You call that fun? Do you realize I spent decades just trying to exterminate them all, every damned one of them from even the furthest darkest corners of the kingdom?”“They were very hard to find, and my first test experience was ... unusual. But no ... it’s not to everyone’s tastes. And, it is quite un-fun for the helpless mortal female, I suppose. It’s a good thing that these beetles are just about extinct. It took me forever,. She might have been a great role model, but it got to be more than a bit annoying and awkward. Sam was always hovering around us when we were at our place, and pestering me to invite Amanda over again as soon as she left.She even went so far as to insist that I ask her out, just so that she would be around more often. Thank God that she never said anything like that while Amanda was around to hear it! I would have been forced to murder the poor thing.Tonight, Amanda was dressed as Little Red.