I... think you'd better stop now. You seem to have got all of me so I think I might snooze for a while." Mom's voice was definitely trembling as she s...id this and I realised that even after I stopped and moved back she made no effort to lower her dress or close her legs. I guess I was being treated to a really good look.Keeping myself turned away from Mom's view I clambered to my feet and headed for the woods, stating that I would be back soon. My shorts and underwear were quickly around my. ” “Thanks, Marcus but you’re only being nice.” He scoffed, “I mean that. Since you didn’t answer my text last night, how did your appointment thing go?” Hadley was glad he couldn’t see her; she covered her eyes and held back the tears that longed to drop. “Nothing important, the canvas doesn’t match with their displays right now and the owner told me to call back.” Marcus heard the tremor in her voice and wished he didn’t have practice so he could at least support her. “I’m so sorry, Hadley.. She lay her head on his shoulder,“I want to know”, she whispered. “ME TOO”, he replied. They pulled back enough to look at one another,“should we” ?, she asked while looking him in the eye. Each knew that if there was nobody else in the world they could trust one another. “I TRUST YOU”, he said looking her right in the eyes. “I TRUST YOU TO, MORE THAN ANYONE”, she replied. It was affirmed, they were going to perform the ultimate act, with each other, even as forbidden as it was. They continued. Apparently so. It got too extreme, Maddy toldCarol with some satisfaction. One day she informed Ray that sheneeded to humiliate him in public in some as yet unspecified waythat would permanently injure his reputation, make him appearridiculous in everyone's eyes. Would he do that for her? Knightsof old did that for their Lady loves in olden days, she said. Totest a lover's sincerity, a Lady might require her Knight at Armsto show cowardice during some joust, for example, to sacrifice.