. our ... home. I have been locked up like a..." I am sorry for that. You will be locked up and remain so."He looked like he was genuinely sorry it ha... to be so."Why? Are you not master here?" I said with a frown."I am." He said before meeting my eyes. "As you know we did not wed in a traditional manner."That was putting it mildly, but I said nothing."I cannot allow you to show yourself until you swell with my child. And I cannot allow you out of doors in the winter, least you take a chill and. Denise could feel the heat coming off Tommy from where she stood even on the parts that didn't touch him. Her nipples stood out a little further realizing this.Thomas' fear was starting to disappear under the onslaught of lust. Her hands moved to his chest once the shirt dropped to the ground. Fine brown hair traced from nipple to nipple; it was very soft and downy under her palms. She noted that he had more hair than some of the 20 year olds she'd seen. A second finer trail led from his belly. Devlin watched Reni as she helped Kelly prepare dinner and was glad to the two women got along reasonably well. Both John and Michael were playing a video game and Sean was relaxing in the overstuffed recliner that seemed to be a favorite of the men in the family. There seemed to be on in every home that one of them owned or rented. Except his, he preferred the couch, and even now he was stretched out on it, watching a movie with his brother. A part of him resented his family’s intrusion into. The Circle. Susan and Ann had let her in on this secret of theirs at the start of the the fall semester at high school. Melissa was a sophomore, not quite due to turn sixteen yet until after the start of the new year. Susan and Ann were seniors, which was why Melissa had been so surprised that they actually wanted to associate with her. She was doubly surprised when they told her about the Circle.Susan and Ann were pagans. Melissa had learned this early on. But what they had not told her until.