”“See, Deena? Vocabulary. You just tossed ‘contemporaries’ into an informal conversation.”“Would you rather I be ‘he’s like’ and ‘...nowhutI’m sayin’ and crap like that? I’m in COLLEGE. But lots of girls my age, they’ve been having sex since they were twelve...”“And you, my precious daughter?”“I will NEVER have sex outside a committed relationship,” I said. Unsaid is that I’m IN a committed relationship right now.“That’s a difficult line to put in your life, baby...”“I know, Mom, but it IS a. I probably would have fainted like she did frommy first sexual encounter." She fainted?" I asked."I think she passed out. One minute she was screaming your name, and thenext minute she was quiet." What happened next?" I asked."I cleaned her up. Very messy stuff... I then lowered her skirt and lether sleep it off on the fucking horse. The next morning, she startedscreaming to be let go, which woke me up really early. I think it mighteven have been before 8am. Before I let her go, I explained how. By now you also notice that you are completely naked, save for your rope restraints. _Ah God, what the fuck did I do last night? Is this some kind of sick joke, when are the cameras going to show up? Troy's gonna fucking pay for dragging me out of the house! _You cough around the gag in your mouth, trying to maneuver it with your tongue. It's some kind of cloth, and after a minute you finally spit it out onto the floor.Your memory of last night is foggy, a text guilt tripping you into another. We met again for lunch, then headed to the airport for our flight home. She’d found a couple of promising properties and was waiting for the agent to get to her with answers to some questions before deciding which one we’d take.September 27, 1996, Chicago, Illinois“Are you fucking kidding me? Why the FUCK would we do that?”“Because it’s a path to seriously hurting Dante. What do you think will happen if he grows Peach?”“But Lone Star is a competitor!” Cindi protested.“For now,” I grinned.“Wait!.