Thenight was another world, another place, utterly removed from the demands ofmundane day-today living. In the dark all fantasies were possible, one c...uldgive life to one's clandestine self, and no one would ever tell. And in thedark, all secrets were sacred, cloaked in the benediction of silence. She lay awake, deep into the night, her body betraying her yet again. Shecould count on nothing. She wanted everything. And she was past the point ofregret. Her body was tense with wanting, almost as. He was about speak but she beat him to it, “ Hello, I’m Sheba,” she said with that smirk playing across her lips as she motioned for him to sit next to her at the small table, “You looked rather lonely over there!”“Well yes; thank you.”“What’s your name?” Sheba asked.“Clive.” he answered, the deceased George Bakewell was my Uncle on my mother’s side.”“How’s your mother keeping Clive?”“She don’t travel so well these days, that’s why she got me to make the journey here.”“You’ve no older brother. ”She rose and knocking the dead cigarette into the ashtray, lit two and handed him one.“Well, now we both know it works,” she rose and sat on the arm of the sofa, “now, you think you can make Roxanne as happy as you made me?”“And what about?”“Me?” Susan brushed the hair out of his eyes. “You’re nineteen and I’m forty five. I’m old enough to be your mom and I have other plans, but you tell Roxanne’s father or Roxanne and I’ll make your life a misery. She loves you Stan but she thinks you don’t. ” I was surprised at the change in his attitude as Master slowly got off the bed. They stood cock to cock. Ronnie turned grumbling and disappeared out of my line of vision. “Jimmy, get the pressure off those nipples. NOW. Buddy, get the antiseptic? …Please?” He wiped the oozing blood away with a Kleenex, so gently. Jimmy stood there looking somehow lost and guilty at the same time. “Thanks, Bud. Now leave both of you.” Soon I heard a door open and close. I laid there with my eyes closed as he.