Chapter 1371 A White Witch Sacred Secret(Taboo/Incest):>Ep17
- Unspoken, but understood by all in these discussions, was Ann's fading sex drive. For now, David had his distractions of the service girls and the wife exchange, both of which he instituted at the law firm with his wife's blessing. But Ann was looking towards the day when those might be gone or insufficient for him. "Are you going to work until the grave?" Ann asked. "A sexy man like you won't stop just because he retires,"she flattered. David planned an early retirement while he was still able. But not yet, he took considerable pleasure or psychic income in mastering his partners and the business. It was all he ever wanted to do and he was doing it so well.
- Ann worried that if the job did not kill him, then retirement would deny him the sexual outlets of the service girls and the wife exchange, driving him to other options - like wife #4. She needed something else to keep him with her. Well, she knew someone who was handy for the purpose.
- Ann looked across the bed, at Rose's love and her unfulfilled desires "for a man like her father" which were obvious to Ann when Rose touched David. She thought that if David also explored "the last step" of sex with Rose, they were both more likely to happily stay together with her until her last days. (Ann had a net worth that was 10 times what David Barnes had accumulated with his hard and productive work; it was far more than they could spend in a lifetime, so that was not an issue except that, as Ann's daughter, Rose could inherit.) Ann had already buried two wealthy hard-working husbands who just wanted to "stay in the game a little longer." She was really quite sure she did not want to be alone at the end. Keeping "her daughter" Rose close seemed likely to increase Ann's odds of success, that was part of the reason for the adoption.