. I was tending bar later than usual and for once looking forward to the nights ... festivities? A particularly interesting man had taken an interest ...n me. What did it matter if he were paying for my favor? He was young and for once rather pleasant looking if not handsome.I suppose even then, like so many young girls I was still foolish enough for some part of me to believe there was a prince somewhere out there! Just waiting to come to my rescue!Thoughts of that nature may even have been. The other girls agreed.Belle said that she hadn’t been riding hard today so I should be able to catch the wagon train tomorrow and return home the next day.Belle’s nervousness returned a little bit when we headed for our bedroom. With Belle being nervous about her first time, Emma and I both concentrated on making her feel good. Fortunately, I had already discovered that there was no hymen when I had used my finger inside her in the bathtub.Emma started between Belle’s legs and I started at the. That was something I’d asked Mister Dukes about.“Has it ever flooded here, Mister Dukes?”“Nope. Not as long as I’ve had the place. Them damn Feds’re gonna fix us though...”“Costing a fortune to raise those house pads.”He shook his head. “Coming and going. They get it in taxes, then when you try to do something, they fix it so you have to pay YOUR money to do it THEIR way.”I’m liking the old man. I hope when I reach his age I’m like that.I’m liking life in general right now. My two lovelies and. He’s making love to her, and he’s doing it with every ounce of himself as if it might make a difference somehow. “Please” She cries beneath him. She wants to be ravished, she wants to feel sore tomorrow but even now, even when she pleads with him, he can’t be all that she wants. He can only be himself and right now, he’s a man in love, a desperate man trying to inject her with all that he feels. “I want to marry you!” he’d said the night before and it had been that one statement that would.