“He tried it,” Gordon said.“I knew he would. Did you stay faithful to me or did you let him in your panties?” I asked.“You are so gross. I w...uld never be unfaithful to you.”“Yeah. It’s almost like I was your wife and you’d never be unfaithful to her,” I laughed. He sighed.“It’s not like that. Well, okay, it is like that. But my wife doesn’t mind as long as I share,” he said.“Too much information, Gordon,” I said. “It just gets too complicated when you add that many people. Your wife. My. 'Psycho-analysis time. More fucking inkblots that look likebadminton rackets'. "Don'tworry though," said Dr Hodges, as if reading her mind. "I won't beanalysing your every move and mood: we have staff here that are paid to do thatinstead." He laughed, and Chloe's mother chuckled. Chloe cast her asidelong glance, irritated. "Now,"said Dr Hodges. "Shall we get down to business? I have a few things foryou to sign, Miss Valentine. For official purposes..." Chloehadn't anticipated that she could. I also suggested they might persuade you to bring them up to Greygarth for a weekend, and they wouldn’t want to jeopardise that.” “Mum, they actually propositioned me when you went to the loo. It was very sweet and gentle. They just made it clear that if I wanted to experiment, then they were willing to help.” “Do you want to experiment?” “Two days ago, I would have said no. Maybe I would have been a little bit curious, but the answer would still have been, no.” “And now?” “Can we have this. Kirk entered a large home, Ari was greeted with hugs. ‘We must act quickly. Your father is not a stupid man and he will assume you would come to us,’ Mrs. Kirk said to Ari. She nodded and listened to her mother’s closest friends formulate a plan. Ari jumped when the door opened. ‘Ari, this is Bethany’s son Bobby. Bobby, this is Ariana. Her mother was a dear friend of ours,’ Mrs. Kirk introduced. Bobby nodded politely. Bethany explained to her son about Ariana’s situation and Ariana was.