Katie realised then more firmly that she quite fancied Stacey albeit that she was nearly twenty-years older than her boss. Stacey kept smiling as she ...elcomed Katie to her home. She showed Katie in to the living room and already on the table was hot water in a jug with a choice of coffee or tea together with a range of cream cakes. "I do like my afternoon tea," Stacey said still smiling. Katie wondered how Stacey was able to retain her slim figure if she ate cream cakes but maybe it was. . and how is this,” I looked around the room exaggeratedly, my eyes wide, “your life?”He closed his eyes and shook his head. “That’s a whole other conversation, for a whole other day,” he said, pushing out his chair and then helping me out of mine, “and we’ve got a four-poster bed to make use of.”--At some point during the night, I woke up to find Liam’s arms wrapped tightly around me and his warm stomach pressed against my spine. His breathing was slow and steady, hot on my neck. Certain he. ”“Yes, what?” I asked, though I thought I already knew the answer.“Yes, I will be your girlfriend,” she said.“Really?” I asked, “You really will?”“Oh Talina, I totally will!” she said, “I think you are really sweet and I don’t get these kind of feelings for people either.”“Have you ever had a girlfriend before,” I asked her.“No, but ever since I was interested in girls, I dreamed of being with someone as sweet as you!” she said.“Awe, that is so nice of you to say,” I said.“You have your own. I think of them as my wives – so it’s the term I’m going to use.”Octavia held up her hands with a smile. “You don’t have to justify it to me. Truthfully, I tend to treat my concubines much closer than protocol strictly dictates.”She frowned slightly. “I’m not sure you should call them wives, though. A marriage between a Citizen and a concubine isn’t allowed – at least, not in most colonies. A ‘marriage’ – a union of some kind – is allowed between two Citizens in many if not most colonies,.