Sure, I knew at the moment that spa employee looked back at me that I was not acting like a normal man but I still would have done anything she asked....ctually, the "anything" part scared me for a while. Would I really have done anything? I didn't dare think of what "anything" might have been, or might yet be - though even that fear didn't for a moment dampen my wish that I could see her again immediately; that I could lose myself once more in those eyes.I said "those days" but in honesty I went. The real reason why Lucinda and her younger brother Rufus were purchased for such a large sum of money. Simon had a reputation of owning only the most beautiful of women and the strongest and most virile of men in his New Orleans establishment.The sound of the arriving carriages from Savannah and the shouting of the plantation folk filled the stage with excitement. The three women laughed and made ready to move to the entry hall.Several servants and a few of the Yankee soldiers were already. Maybe we can try a walk in a few minutes.’ Her whisper brought him back to the present. He took her hand in his and knelt next to her chair. ‘I’d like that, if you feel strong enough.’ He transferred her oxygen tube to a small portable tank he could carry on his back as they walked. They made their way slowly out of the bedroom, through the small living room, past the ratty old book-strewn sofa they had purchased at a moving sale, and across the expensive Persian rug they had purchased from a. One day we all got drunk and had a little race in the swimming pool, it was me and Chloe verses Aaron and Sara and they beat us. I said ‘let’s make it interesting, if we win Sara spends the night with us two and if you win chloe spends the night with you two’ we all laughed and agreed to it although there was clearly no substance to the bet. We raced again and sure enough they beat us and Aaron said ‘it’s going to be a cold one for you tonight all alone’. We called it a day and agreed to meet.