“My sweet Denise, the last 12 hours were the most incredible 12 hours of my life. I’m so comfortable with you, we get along so well… the sex was...like we were reading each other’s mind. That has never happened to me. That is the cherry on top of what is now an absolutely perfect relationship.” “Sometimes you have to work to keep a relationship together. Looking back I see that that means there is no real comfort zone. I have held back thinking that the kind of sex I truly wanted, needed, was too. I remembered what I had seen from my first life. Chloe, though abusive towards me, had wanted to find a male role model in her life, and ended up going off the rails when she kept on rejecting them. She ended up with 4 kids by 4 different fathers. It was the same as Elysa. They were, in my general labeling, a couple of bar whores. They’d go out, pick up guys, have sex with them unprotected unless the guy thought ahead, and then blame the guy for not using protection when they got pregnant. They. " He felt more nervous now than at any other time in his lifefor some reason "I...." What was wrong with his brain? he thought. Itwas as if parts of it were flickering off and other parts felt as if theywere cornered by a mad dog."You, what?" she asked as they walked toward the Grand Staircase."Hold on a second," Kyle said as he reached out and took her arm to stopher and pull her to the side, as The Staircase is where they wouldusually would part, as her House was up on the 7th floor, and his. Even people indirectly associated with such activities were punished with extreme severity."If news of this leaks out, we're all going to be locked up forever," Sierra wailed, fear clearly evident in her eyes."We have to stop it," Grace replied."How can we?" You've got the key to the room?" Mason will kill me if I tried to interfere." Then give it me. I'll do it." No. Please Grace. Don't do this." Give it to me," Grace repeated sharply, causing Sierra to flinch."Now!" she demanded even more.