"I can't mount your horse in front of everybody," she said. "People would talk. My mother would forbid it, and your men would gossip."He turned from h...r then, and started walking among the trees. For a moment, she thought he was accepting her 'no.' Things were hard on a girl. She had to say 'no, ' and men were likely to think she meant 'no.' Especially if the men were stupid, or Yankee. And Charles was both."Could you walk up here?" Charles asked. He pointed to a fallen tree which slanted up. "She attached a pair of discreet clip-on earrings to my lobes.At which point the door opened. Fred and Steve came in, with Sharonfollowing behind.I gaped. Vera snickered."Surprise!" the new me said to me.The new Steve's voice was much higher than mine. Surely they wouldn'thave...? She wouldn't have...?"Annie...?" I stuttered.She looked concerned when she saw how shocked I was. She turned toFred, her hands on her hips in a very unmasculine, but very Annie,fashion."I told you we should have. She grasped her thighs tightly with her hands and held them still open for him as she whimpered gently to herself in her pleasure. Her head was tilted slightly to one side, her mouth open as she breathed heavily and her eyes were upturned in her head in her ecstasy. “More!” she whispered.He couldn’t refuse and he leaned forwards into her and began repeating his series of movements again. He knew her. He knew exactly what she needed and he knew how to give this to her. He also knew in his own. "We have to discuss how we are going to deal with the Keep and the people there, they are used to seeing you in the mornings in the dining hall, seeing you about the keep during the day. We have to insure that doesn't change, it will be no problem if we left for a few days at a time but as your pregnancy advances, that will become more difficult." She nodded thoughtfully "Collin is due back any time now, no one will be surprised if we spent a fair amount of time in the tower room for the first.