I knew she was powerful, but damn." What?" Wait, are you being serious?" Dom asked. "You're not fucking with us, are you? Like as payback for thinking...you were the first time?" No, seriously, what the fuck is Todd talking about?" I asked. Except I knew. I wasn't sure how I knew. But hadn't I already thought to myself that it felt like a heavy curtain had been d****d over certain parts of my mind? Still, how did Todd know our cousin had done this to us? How was it that a few hours ago, everyone. I’d love to make a closer inspection later. I told them.Perfect, let’s skip the drinks here and head to my place for drinks after your round. Gloria offered.What the fuck, I thought. This was too good an offer to refuse. Amy and Shelly would be at the club late and Ariel would understand.Sounds good to me. I told them.Hey Thorn, we’re up next. My fellow competitor Tom hailed me to the tee. Both the two women and I stood up. Mike was coming over to get my bag.Here’s a kiss for luck. Jen said and. What did you find for us?” Sam asked as she grabbed the outfits I picked out. “You’ve got some good taste, Bret.”“You two hotties make the clothes work. Besides, it’s just what I like.”“We know. We like looking hot for you. Take these to Syd, she needs your opinion on something. I’m going to find some more outfits.” With a kiss on the cheek, she was gone, and I was headed towards the dressing room.“Syd? I have a few outfits for you to look at. Sam said they were good enough.”“Over here, Bret.. “Sit down. Well done you. No matter what some sleazeball tells you, and there’s plenty of them about, the good actors get there without having to be whores. If you’re as good as I think you are then you don’t need to be a whore.”“So why the charade?”“Flick said she wanted me to give it to you straight. There’s a certain irony there, no?” She laughed and despite my waning anger, I did too. “She, we know you’re likely to have to deal with that and it’s best you do it now and understand we’re not.