Chapter 463

SCOTT

Shasta also started learning self-defense techniques from Rhonda, thinking if she was going to start dating again, she'd want to be prepared if anyone got too aggressive before she was ready to have sex. The other women generally liked staying for that. Every one of them either knew some woman who'd been raped, or perhaps pressured into sex before they were ready, even if it wasn't exactly rape.

I was putting in a lot of extra time at work, preparing to build Thornhill's house, so they could exercise without interfering with my slave time. All the women had slacked off their workout routines somewhat as Julia went through her pregnancy. When she could no longer keep doing some things, those things tended to get neglected by everyone else as well. Only swimming and yoga had been maintained on a somewhat regular schedule, and it wasn't enough to keep their bodies toned as much as they had been. The baby weight started to melt off.

When