They continued to visit their mother and Peter at weekends. Diane asked me if she could take them down to the house on the south coast. I had to get c...earance from Zoe, but she was content to allow it provided I was. She was keen to get them to re-establish a relationship with their mother.On occasions Diane would visit the house in the evenings and dine with us. I kept things as light as I could, but I still resented her for what she had done to us, but that lessened over the months.Milla kept. As a last resort, I inhaled deeply, cleansing my mind of all distractions, trying to ignore all bodily sensations. How could I, at my age, lose myself in the pleasures of the body?“This is what you have been searching for, isn’t it, Professor Artemis?” whispered Carla in my ear. I felt her breath against my cheek and her lips brushing my ear.Then I saw the whole inscription on the tablet, the moment I’ve been waiting for:Follow the concubine to the underworld.What the fuck did it mean?I quickly. “Thank you so much”. “No problem”, he replied. “So where are you headed”? He asked. “To an IT seminar in Daytona, and you”? “Really, I’m going there myself”, he replied. “Really? Why are you going to the seminar”? I inquired He gave a soft cough and looking down at his feet, said that he was one of the presenters. “No wonder you fixed my phone so quickly”, I said. “What company do you work for”? “Apple. I’m the one who designed the software in your phone. “Oh! I’m sorry. I didn’t mean. Basically, it sucked, but with Nick there it was perfect. I was sitting on the couch next to my best friend, Josephine. Lisa only invited her because she doesn’t have a lot of girlfriends. She noticed me staring at something and turned to the something I was staring. She realized that I wasn’t staring at something, but at someone. “Anna,” she whispered. “Huh? Wh-What?” I said as I came back to reality. “I can see you,” she whispered winking at me, “staring at Nick.” “No, I’m not,” I said.