” “Yes Michael.” “We still have some work to do.” “Tell me, I'll do anything.” “You have to finally accept who you are and I have to a...cept who I am and then we have to accept each other. I mean honestly accept each other. That's why tomorrow night, you have to have your date with Jack Mahler and I have to go the cuckold club with Ginger and Scotty.” “I understand. Michael?” “Yes Jeanne.” “Tomorrow night, while you're sitting in the cuckold gallery with the other husbands, watching their wives. Carla Blair.” There was an abrupt silence at the steep rise in price. I felt a little like Scarlett at the Atlanta ball, and he did look a bit like Rhett Butler, right down to the mustache and well-cut tuxedo. “And her gourmet feast.”Dale tried valiantly to get another bid, but of course the $500 increase showed that this man was determined to win. So win he did, and it wasn’t hard for me to look pleased. I’d nailed the highest price for the evening, and gotten a good-looking guy, too.He. In only four days, I would be joining the Convocation of the Nine – which would have to be renamed into the Convocation of Ten if they accepted me – and represent the interests of homo sapiens against and alongside of those of the Syn.I didn’t know what was coming, not really. I had only ever seen the extraterrestrials on television and read about them in the aforementioned scientist’s academic papers. I had, of course, studied everything on interstellar politics that we and the Syn had. I couldn't help but notice she had on her thin white tank top. I could plainly see the dark circles of her areolas through the fabric stretched tight over her breasts. Damn her for looking so sexy like that."I've been dealing with a lot of crap with Roger lately, and it was wrong of me to dump that all on you. Just because I'm a horny mess doesn't give me the right to take advantage of you." Don't get me wrong, Dana, I honestly don't regret what happened." I did everything I could to keep my.