"The reasons vary, but in general it is a mix of already having some feelings or loyalty towards each other, a feeling of necessity, the knowledge tha... the legal and medical barriers are not there, and a conditioning added to ensure that concubines are loyal to their owners." Oh. You've programmed us to accept it?" No. The conditioning in each concubine merely makes them more loyal to their owner. It cannot directly change their belief on this, or indeed on anything else, though it does help.. " If he died without heir, how could he have a descendant to reclaim his throne?" He had descendants. Only none were male. Lily, his third child by his second wife. All his sons died, but his daughter survived and had children."I frowned. "That sounds familiar. Wasn't there a curse?" Holy Slata was angered at her husband Pater's devotion to his bastard son Peter. She cursed Peter and ensured all his sons died, and that his daughter Lily and all her descendants would only birth women. As I said,. " He looked hurt. "Sorry. I didn't mean it in abad way. Just," and she paused to gather her thoughts. "It's more likeyou said we should go live in a castle as a fairy tale prince andprincess. I always assumed it was something I couldn't ever do, so whyeven think about it?"His face stayed serious, almost somber. "But, you will? Think about it?Right?"Reaching over she put a hand on his leg. "I will. I really will."He seemed really happy and she felt bad. What if she said no, would it allbe. The catch was that he was going to be there. After quite a bit of back and forth, he assured me that his wife was dying for this and they had been talking about it forever. In the pictures he sent me of her she was smoldering, a well proportioned, sexy beauty that looked very much younger than her stated forty years old. We set up a time and place, and I was there waiting, arriving early for some social lubrication.When they walked in she was at least three times hotter than her pictures. .