“Come on. Let’s get you some breakfast and back home.” I grabbed the duffel bag and my car keys and headed out through the kitchen, with Marilyn...in tow.She was very quiet on the ride, and by the time we crossed the Hoosick Street Bridge, I glanced over at her and laughed. Marilyn always had the most amazing ability to fall asleep anywhere, anytime, within seconds of closing her eyes. Now she was sitting there, upright, with her head tilted back, her eyes closed, and softly snoring. I had seen. No promotion or pay raise now but it would really set me up for the near future.“Later that week we were all told to meet in the board room for the introductory meeting and hold a kick-off. A meet and greet sort of thing and then receive our assignments. That is when I guess you can say the trouble started. As soon as he walked in I was awestruck. It was an instant attraction. I felt like I was hit with lighting. I saw YOU. I saw you just as you were when you were thirty years old. He had the. ..“Where is Sharn, you stupid cunt?” Ceilia demanded, her imperious voice echoing off of the marble walls of the rotunda of the Palace of the Council, as she practically spat the name in her youngest sister’s face. “He was your responsibility today, Goddess damn him! I will not allow your soft-heartedness towards him make our House look foolish before our enemies!”The finely dressed women waiting with their own sons and daughters for their turn before the Council of the Goddess had begun. “That’s it bitch that’s it.” Vieona cooed stroking his back as he labored for breath.Around them, the group had tightened up around them to see the spectacle. At the front of the room, the waitresses still stood by the kitchen watching the two. They could see everything. The man being pumped as he was bent over the table, the handful of skinny pale women at the other table furiously kissing and licking each other, the head bobbing in the other man’s lap, the girl in purple fucking one of.