Gradually she remembered the other way she had flourished, and as Katherine realized that all had been at the secret bidding of Hans, she began to blush fiercely. To think that he had planned it all! That was why Marie and Celeste had acted so strangely, because she threatened the plan which they had vowed to follow. But, as the offspring of her great-great uncle, Hans was a relative—
She began to understand that it was not merely his guiding of her s****l awakening that had unnerved her, but the idea of love. When s*x was done, it was done. She had not known, after all, that she was merely following an orgiastic script devised by some artificially created man…who was her relative. If there were any blame there, it could not be hers.
Yet love was different. Love was supposed to be foreve
