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In the morning Renzo had waken up earlier and went upstairs to check on them, they were still laying naked together sleeping. It deeply hurt him to see his 25 year old wife naked laying beside an older man that was basically twice her age. He still did not want to interrupt them so he went downstairs and did some housework waiting for them to wake up.

Eventually both Ted and Kayla woke up approximately around the same time when the light from the window shun on their faces. Neither Ted nor Kayla forgot what happened last night. For Kayla she had been molested in the club by Ted then raped by him in her marital bed and the worse of all she ended up submitting herself to him and willingly fucked him back the second time. The feelings of guilt returned for her, she may have been raped the first time but she cheated on Renzo the second time. Ted on the other hand was still on a high from the conquest of the events of last night.

Ted suggested they get a shower together to clean up before he left. Kayla was obviously hesitant still not knowing where her husband was exactly but she reluctantly went along with it. She had already fucked this man twice so taking a shower together almost seemed trivial at this point, she knew things had already gone too far.

Renzo while sweeping the floor downstairs now heard whispers and some noise from upstairs, he knew they were awake now so he waited patiently for them to come down stairs. After a minute or two they didn't come down but he heard the shower now running so he decided to tip toe upstairs to see what was going on now.

As he got to the top of the stairs and peaked around the corner he could see the bedroom was now empty. He heard more voices coming from the bathroom and he moved forward until he was now inside the bedroom. On the floor of the bedroom he could see Kayla's dress on the floor and Ted's clothes scattered about. He moved to the entrance of the bathroom which was left open and could now see the shadows of Kayla and Ted together in the shower.

Renzo knew they couldn't see him; the glass shower door was not clear and you couldn't see through properly, also the added steam from the shower also helped conceal that fact he was peeping in on them. They were talking in the shower and although the voices echoed a bit it was too hard to tell what they were saying.

From what Renzo could see it was obvious that Ted was standing behind Kayla and was fondling her large breasts. Then what happened next shocked him, he watched as the shadow of Kayla bent down and started to move her head back and forth. It was obvious she was giving him a blow job in the shower. After a minutes of watching her head bob back and forth she stood up and assumed the same position she was in before, Renzo thought maybe Ted had came and they would be finished but he was wrong.

The shadow of Ted grabbed Kayla's hips and pulled her towards him, a loud moan echoed the bathroom as he entered her. He wasn't finished at all, he was just starting. For the next 15 minutes Renzo watched as they fucked standing up in the shower. When Ted finally groaned out loud he knew that Ted had ejaculated again in his wife, that was his cue to get out of there. Renzo decided to go lay back on the couch and pretend he was asleep.

After her shower with Ted Kayla dressed and headed downstairs to see if she could find her husband, where was he through all of this ordeal? As she came downstairs she found him laying asleep on the couch still. She wasn't sure if he knew anything and was afraid to say anything to him so rather then acknowledge anything that happened she simply woke him up kissed him on the forehead and told him she was going to make breakfast for him.

Kayla was extremely nervous and agitated, she was scared that Ted might say something to Renzo or that maybe Renzo might even knew what happened but if Renzo wasn't going to say anything then she would just hope for the best and live with yet another big lie in her life. Just as Renzo was drinking his coffee waiting for Kayla to finish the bacon and eggs she was cooking he noticed Ted finally coming down the stairs wearing a pair of Renzo's boxers and one of his t-shirts.

Renzo said nothing about the fact that Ted was half undressed wearing his clothes but did manage to mumble out a "good morning" after Ted greeted them. It didn't even register to Kayla that Ted was wearing her husband's clothes, she was worrying about too many other things to even pick up on it. As Ted passed Kayla to pour himself a cup of coffee he reached down and squeezed her ass. Kayla jumped a little but tried to pretend like nothing happened. Renzo couldn't believe Ted would do that right in front of him.

As Renzo and Ted ate the breakfast Kayla cooked for them neither said anything to each other while Kayla was there, it was an awkward meal for both Kalya and Renzo but not Ted. Ted had a permanent smirk on his face however he was clearly amused by the situation. Kayla ate her breakfast quickly and told them that she had to call her friend Denise so that she could pick up the kids soon and went back upstairs.

As soon as Kayla left Ted finally spoke to Renzo calmly saying, "I told you the blond girl would take me home with her." Ted paused and took another sip of his coffee and the continued "You didn't believe that blond girl from the club would hook up with me but looks like you were wrong, we both had a good time last night." Renzo was filled with rage, "That was Kayla you fucking bastard, it was Kayla the whole time and you know it!"

Ted just smiled and calmly replied, "No kidding dumb ass, I was just fucking with you.... err rather I was fucking your wife and now I am going to get one more blowjob off her then I'll be on my way."

Renzo couldn't believe what he was saying, he just sat their dumbfounded yet again as Ted got up and went back upstairs. After a minute or two Renzo went back upstairs as well and sure enough their was his wife on her knees sucking off Ted at a fast pace, swallowing his long length almost entirely some times. This time both Ted and Kayla realized Renzo was there and at the moment Ted blew his load all over Kayla's mouth, face and hair. Surprisingly Ted still had a lot of cum despite fucking Kayla three times earlier, he had covered her face with his sperm.

After Ted was done he dressed back into his own clothes and made his exit past Renzo standing in the hallway like a fool. Kayla just stood there on her knees for a moment looking into Renzo's eyes but saying nothing. She then swallowed whatever cum was in her mouth and went to the bathroom to clean up the rest.

Even though Ted was now gone neither Kayla or Renzo talked to each other about what just happened in the last 12 hours. Whether it was denial, fear or something else neither of them could bring themselves to talk about what happened.


The next few weeks were uneventful, both Kayla and Renzo carried on their normal lives but they were now more distant from each other and they didn't have any sex since the incident. During this time Renzo secretly took some DNS samples from all three children as well he found some cum stains that Ted had left behind and saved that so he could get everything tested at once to see if his worse fears were true.

Sure enough he wasn't the father of any of the children, even more troubling was the fact that Ted was only the father of the twins meaning their first child was fathered by yet another man. Renzo wasn't sure what to make off all this, it was a lot to take in all at once.

Meanwhile Kayla has also been doing some sneaking around and also tested her twins against Ted's DNA and sure enough it was true he was the father and his story of raping her at the cottage must have been true. She also discovered she was pregnant during this time.

For the first time ever she actually considered abortion this time, she did not want a forth child let alone another child from Ted. Ultimately though she felt too guilty about that fateful night, even though she had been molested and raped initially she later accepted it, submitted to him and enjoyed it afterwards. It may have been non-consensual at first but later she did go along with it willingly so she felt it would be wrong to terminate the pregnancy as a result, she would end up feeling too guilty if she did.

Kayla wanted to talk to someone about this situation but she could never tell any of her friends. The only person she thought she could talk to was Dave, the father of her first child however she was too embarrassed to even do that. So instead she decided to just tell Renzo she was pregnant, indirectly it would be the first time in weeks of her actually acknowledging what happened.

When Kayla finally told Renzo she was pregnant, she did simply that providing him with no details, no explanation, no confession, she just simply told him she was pregnant and that was it. Since neither of them had sex in weeks even before that night it was obvious that Ted was the father. Renzo had already suspected it but said nothing.

For Renzo he felt trapped, he was married to a beautiful woman that he loved and despite having three children he now knew was the result of her infidelity he was reluctant to leave her. He already knew his marriage to her was slowly falling apart because of the heavy burden of lies she was carrying but for now he was reluctant to call it quits.

Kayla slowly began telling some of her friends and coworkers that she was pregnant again. Word must got around because out of the sudden Ted was calling about the "good news" and even invited himself over. Kayla wondered if he had been joking or if he was serious, Renzo was angered that Kayla didn't tell him not to come over but Kayla insisted that he probably wasn't serious and wouldn't show up.

It was Friday night and there was a knock on the front door, Kayla went to answer it and sure enough it was Ted. Kayla was reluctant to let him in but she allowed him in anyways. Ted congratulated her again and without even asking he put his hand up her shirt and rubbed her belly a few times. Kayla was only a month and a half pregnant so she wasn't showing yet but Ted had insisted that he wanted to feel the baby. Renzo just sat across the room on the couch watching again as Ted was taking too many liberties with his wife.

Renzo knew that Ted's interest in the baby was a bit of a farce more of just an excuse to come over here and see Kayla but since Kayla wasn't saying anything about it he remained silent. After some brief chit chat they all headed outside too baq some food and sit outside with some beers.

For both Kayla and Renzo having Ted show up again sort of uninvited was a bit awkward and made them anxious however surprisingly Ted was acting more normal, well at least he wasn't hitting on Kayla and/or touching her. This put both Kayla and Renzo at ease however it would be short lived. After they all finished up some hamburgers and several beers they decided to watch a movie together inside.

Renzo wanted to keep the lights on during the movie but Ted insisted they turn them off otherwise the movie wouldn't be as enjoyable. All three of them sat on the couch in front of the big flat screen TV with Kayla sitting in the middle of them. Before the movie started Kayla wanted to get into some more comfortable clothes and went upstairs to change.

While she was changing Ted grabbed a few more beers and handed one to Renzo. Renzo didn't trust him though, he had that same sort of smirk on his face from before which made him nervous. When Kayla returned she was wearing some short shorts and a tank top, it was obvious she wasn't wearing a bra under it now. The way she was dressed seemed casual enough for a normal evening at home without company but Renzo felt uneasy with her dressed that way with Ted here tonight. He could already see Ted eyeing her up and down.

They watched the movie, a typical action movie. Renzo was expecting Ted to put some moves on her or something during the movie but nothing happened. Since nothing was happening Renzo felt more at ease and felt more comfortable drinking more. When the movie ended Ted wanted to watch another movie, it was already almost midnight but he was insistent we watch another movie. Ted had seen that we had rented two movies so before Kayla could interject Ted got up and popped in the second movie, a political thriller.

Kayla was getting cold and excused herself to get a blanket, the blanket was large enough that it covered all three of them. Several minutes into the movie Renzo began to doze off, although he would awaken periodically he was slowly falling asleep, political movies were too boring for him and he was already feeling the effects of the alcohol and sleepiness.

It was around this time Kayla felt a hand on her thigh underneath the blanket, at first she thought it was Renzo but as she turned her head in his direction she could see that he had dozed off. Immediately she had sinking feeling in her; she was scared and nervous about what Ted was doing to her. Kayla tried to whisper to him to stop but that only seemed to encourage Ted to shift his hand farther up her leg and under her short shorts.

Kayla tried to nudge Renzo; maybe if he woke up Ted would stop but it was no use, he was lightly snoring now and Ted knew it. She now felt his hand over her covered crotch cupping her pussy and gently massaging it. The last thing Kayla wanted was this sort of unwanted attention again from Ted but despite that the attention he was giving was having a direct effect on her body.

Her short shorts were now getting very damp and Kayla was moaning simply from his dry rubbing of her pussy. Kayla didn't even realize that she willingly lifted her butt a little off the couch so that Ted could pull her short shorts off; she was already too far gone in her own lust.

Kayla was now naked from the waist down and Ted wasted no time inserting one finger then two fingers into her wet cunt and began to finger her. Both Kayla and Ted stared ahead at the movie still playing but both were not paying attention to it at all.

About this time Renzo awoke to see the movie still playing, he could see his wife Kayla and Ted were both awake still watching the movie. There was however something off though, Kayla was sitting very close to Ted and her breathing seemed to be erratic. After his eyes adjusted a bit better he could see there was some motion under the covers between them and just then he could hear Kayla very quietly and softly moaning.

Thoughts were racing through Renzo's mind, he couldn't believe they would be fooling around with each other on the couch right directly beside him. He began to think again that maybe this was just all in his head but that's what he told himself last time and he was dead wrong. Renzo still unsure about what was transpiring remained still and pretended to still be dozed off to sleep yet he kept his eyes open just slightly enough to see.

By this time there was now more and more movement, Ted was getting careless trying to conceal what he was doing to Kayla under the blanket. He looked over several times but Renzo still appeared to be asleep so he didn't care as much any more, he unbuckled his jeans and slipped them along with his boxers past his knees and instructed Kayla to grab a hold of his already hard stiff cock.

Kayla was no longer thinking straight, she was naked from the waist down with an older man's fingers thrusting in and out of her pussy mean while she was now giving a hand job under the covers to this old rough redneck and to top it off her own husband was asleep right beside her. Kayla realized tonight was different, she easily and freely gave in this time to Ted, it wasn't like the last time where she was coerced, molested and raped before she gave in.

This time she gave in right away for this disgusting old man, she had no doubt this time she was for sure cheating on her husband. She knew this man had taken advantage of her impregnating her twice, this was a man almost old enough to be her father and rough and rude enough that it was no wonder why he had been in and out of jail several times through his life yet here she was hugely turned on by what he was doing to her sexually. She was ready to abandon all remaining modesty she had as well as any remaining respect she had for her husband.

After being on the verge for a while Kayla could no longer hold back and orgasmed moaning extremely loud and squeezing Ted's penis hard. Ted withdrew his fingers and directed her to climb on top of him on the couch. Kayla didn't waste any time and quickly shifted position startling Ted on the couch and grabbing a hold of his cock which she lined up to her soaking wet pussy.

Renzo paying passive attention to everything was well aware of what just happened, his wife had just orgasmed at the hand of Ted. He watched in horror as Kayla repositioned herself over Ted's large cock. Renzo could now see everything much better, the blanket had fallen off of them and was only covering himself now. He could now see his wife naked from the waist down line up Ted's cock as she straddled him.

A loud moan signaled that Kayla had impaled herself on Ted's large cock, Renzo continued to watch as she sank down on the entire length of his penis until she had taken him in fully and completely. From their she started to bounce and ride on Ted's cock, it was obvious she was well lubricated because not even a minute or two into their fucking they were already making wet sloppy sounds every time she bounced up and down on him. It was obvious to Renzo that she was freely fucking him and enjoying it. Even if the last time was an honest mistake it was clear now that she was more then a willing participant.

Renzo couldn't believe she was betraying him again like this, he really did want to believe the last time was an accident or something but he knew it was all a lie. As this adulterous display went on more and more of himself started to die inside him.

Ted's hands was holding and squeezing her ass every time she slammed down on him and he was now pushing up her loose shirt to reveal her large breasts for him. Kayla helped him and removed her shirt for Ted and without having to be asked he was pawing at her breasts and pinching her nipples. Renzo wished their fucking would just finish up and be done already.

This fuck session of theirs would not finish without humiliating Renzo even further however. Whether it was deliberately planned or not by Ted neither Kayla or Renzo knew but Ted suddenly shifted Kayla's position. He pulled her off of him and pushed her into a doggy style position on the couch so that she was hovering over Renzo which they had believed was sleeping.

Ted stepped out of his jeans, stripped off his shirt and got behind Kayla on the couch and plowed into her immediately with a powerful thrust. That pushed her even farther on the couch so that she was be fucked directly over Renzo.

As Kayla was being fucked in this position she couldn't help but look at Renzo who she was hovering over while Ted keep thrusting in and out of her from behind. She imagined what it would be like if he suddenly woke up right then with old man Ted fucking her right on top of him practically. She ignored though thoughts however and again surrendered herself to her lust. Kayla was nearing a second orgasm and Ted was nearly ready to cum in her. Almost simultaneously they both hit their climax, both Kayla and Ted moaning and groaning loudly as they exchanged bodily fluids right above Renzo. Sadly and pathetically Renzo also climaxed in his pants at about the same time.

As they separated from each other the product of their adulterous fuck spilled out of Kayla's cunt and fell directly on Renzo. Stream after stream of Ted's cum dripped all over Renzo's shirt and pants before Kayla finally moved from that position. Kayla and Ted walked upstairs naked to her bedroom leaving their clothes behind, there was no point to conceal anything any more. She had already been caught and her husband said nothing about it, she had already long crossed the point of no return so what did it matter now.

Renzo waited a minute until he was sure they were gone, he was a sticky mess from all of Ted's cum that had spilled out on to him. It disgusted him, he nearly barfed at the sight and smell of it. Despite the personal humiliation of having Ted's cum on him he left his clothes on and ventured upstairs to see what was happening on his marital bed. Sure enough his wife and Ted were going for another round of sex. Renzo stayed sitting in the hallway for over 4 hours as they continued to fuck all night long.

Renzo thought about what the future would hold for him, it was looking bleak. There was now a forth child on the way that wasn't his, he now realized his wife was an adulterous slut who betrayed him so easily with at least two men now that he knew of. He could have just left but he would have no where to stay except his car repair shop which he did not want to sleep in day after day. He also realized that he was now mid-30's and was already slightly out of Kayla's league to begin with, there was no way he would ever get another sexy young blond girl like that again, she was a once in a life time catch and he still loved her.

So what was he to do? He decided to just leave things as is for now and see what happens maybe Ted would get tired of her and move on eventually. He realized he couldn't compete sexually with Ted so he wasn't going to try. His only plan for the moment was to ride out the storm and hopefully pick up the pieces afterwards.


The next morning Kayla eventually woke up after noon and came downstairs wearing only a big over-sized tshirt. Renzo could clearly see dried cum on her legs. Kayla made some chit-chat with her husband and started making some coffee, again there was no direct mention of the night before.

Kayla asked him how he slept and Renzo asked the same thing of Kayla with her replying that she was "hot and bothered" and didn't get much sleep last night.

As Renzo sat at the kitchen table trying to read the newspaper to distract himself he heard Ted walking down the stairs. When he came in view Renzo almost didn't believe what he saw, here was Ted walking downstairs from his bedroom buck naked. Renzo couldn't believe Ted had the balls to walk around naked in their house right in front of him. Ted seemed to be proud of his old hairy body, he was only slightly over weight but muscular, this was definitely not a sight he wanted to see in the morning to start his day.

Ted smiled and said "good morning" to Renzo and continued over to Kayla and gave her a short good morning kiss on the mouth. Kayla was more then accepting of him and did not seem to be surprised or bothered that Ted was naked. She even reached down and gave his large cock a quick tug which she thought Renzo didn't see. Ted joked and teased Renzo telling him that "I seem to have misplaced my clothes, I think Kayla lost hers as well."

From that point on Ted basically began to hang out and spend all his time at the house, within days he had basically moved in and started living here. Ted had basically taken over all husbandly duties, Ted had become her main man. After the first two nights Renzo protested to Kayla that he wasn't allowed to sleep with her any more. Kayla simply dismissed him saying she didn't know what he was talking about.

She got defensive and said, "Don't forget this is my house that I inherited... it is a large house... you usually don't come to bed with me right away anyways so if someone else wants to sleep on the bed then I say first come first serve... it's nothing personal honey but I want somebody there when I go to sleep and you usually don't do that, you come to bed much later when I am already asleep... like I said it is a large house, there is many places to sleep, don't be bitchy and selfish about it."

Renzo was shocked to hear what his wife was telling him, it was out of character for her but it was undeniable what she was saying. She was basically telling him to accept what was happening and take a step back. Renzo gave up trying to argue anything further after that incident, he began sleeping and living out of the basement, the same basement they had once rented to Kayla's friend Dave who he now knew apparently impregnated her with her first child. Ted slept with Kayla and fucked her every night on their former marital bed.

Renzo was thinking twice about his plan to just "ride out" the storm, the storm was simply not going away any time soon or at all. He again pondered his options but all his available options were bleak and even more depressing. Right now his sole remaining use was to pay all the bills for the house, cars and food.

Ted had no job and being a redneck from the north he hadn't worked in years, Kayla quit her job due to Ted's brother giving her a hard time at work. Kayla learned that Ted's brother also had a crush on her and wanted her and was quite pissed off that his brother had scored her for himself.


After many months Kayla was nearly due to give birth, not much had changed in the home life situation for any of them. Ted continued to fuck Kayla through most of her pregnancy until she was in her last two months. Ted was a horny guy, there was no way he could go two plus months without any good sex so unbelievably Kayla without any conscious managed to trick her good friend Denise into staying a night over at their place.

Denise often babysat for her and was mostly a conservative toned down and dull girl but still attractive and in her twenties. That night Ted and Kayla got Denise drunk and then Ted raped her. Ted continued to fuck Denise until she began to love and crave it just like Kayla. So for those two months Kayla, Denise and Ted all slept together.

During one of these nights that Ted was fucking Denise "the fill in relief pussy", Kayla wandered downstairs to see Renzo. She was only about two weeks away from giving birth. For the first time ever they actually talked about what happened over the last 9 months and what happened the fateful night at the club. Hearing Kayla's side of the story gave Renzo an entirely different view. Kayla went even further back and confessed everything to Renzo about how Dave impregnated her and how she was unfaithful to him.

She admitted to him that although she did kind of like him when they first started going out together it was more because he had a lot of money that she wanted to be with him.

She further went on to explain that she only really married him because she thought he had impregnated her at the cottage but turns out it was Ted all along, had she know that fact she probably wouldn't have married him. Hearing this from Kayla was the last remaining thing he needed to hear in order to walk away from her, there was nothing left to hold on to or hope for, everything was built on a lie to begin with anyways. The choice was now clear for Renzo, he would finally pick up, leave and move on with his life.

Kayla realized what she was saying to Renzo was hurting but it was also freeing him from this burden they both shared. She agreed to not fight whatever divorce petition was made up as long as she retained full ownership of the house and he would be released from any responsibility from his children who weren't really his anyways.

Kayla also realized by letting Renzo go free she was sealing her fate with Ted. She was Ted's lover, his slut and not much else, they did not have much else in common or any type of normal relationship except for the constant sex he gave her. She knew this though and had already accepted her life with Ted.

Renzo packed his clothes the next day, as a last embarrassing act Renzo was forced to search and pack up his clothes in his former bedroom with Ted, Kayla and Denise all naked sleeping on the bed. Ted was awake though and found it amusing. Ted had worn many of Renzo's clothes and either stretched or wrecked them. After Renzo got most of his clothes he took one last look at his pregnant now former wife and left.

Kayla gave birth two week's later to a healthy boy, her forth child. By now her friend Denise was under the spell of Ted, she had become a slut for Ted so it was easy to convince her to stay and help look after all the children. Denise was on the pill so Ted could fuck her all the time without having to worry about impregnating her, Kayla resented that fact since she was allergic to the pill and could never go on it. Ted had a common sense solution though, whenever he would fuck Kayla now Denise would be standing by and he would finish off in her dumping his load of cum inside her instead of Kayla.

Kayla never imagined her life would end up like this, she and her best friend had turned into Ted's sex slaves, perhaps slave is a poor choice of words but she was stuck into a life of constant sex and not much else. Ted was nearly 50 years old now and she was no longer in her prime herself nearing the that hated age of 30 years old. She realized she had wasted her 20's fucking old men that were 10-25 years older then her. The sex was too good though she thought.

For Renzo the years passed by, moving on was easier then he thought. He met another girl closer to his own age in her early thirties and eventually he finally had two children of his own, that he knew for sure they were from his own seed. Over the years he heard nothing of what happened to his ex-wife Kayla nor did he care much. He did however receive an interesting call many, many years later from Dave.

Dave asked if Renzo still had any contact with Kayla and explained he was trying to figure out what happened to her since he had not heard from her in a long while. Since it was years later it was easier for both Dave and Renzo to be honest with each other, they exchanged stories about what happened years ago and both were surprised with many new details they were learning. Dave went on to say that he found out Kayla unbelievably went on to have a total of 8 children with Ted raising her total child count to 9. He explained that he talked to Kayla's old friends Denise and Amber and they said that after Ted had turned 52 years old he had a heart attack and died.

Apparently Kayla disappeared after this; Denise took in the first four children that Kayla had but the remaining 5 children were taken away and placed in foster homes. After that though nobody knows what happened to Kayla and the police never really investigated either. There was no signs of foul play so she was classified as just another missing person.

Renzo and Dave shared a good laugh about how good a fuck Kayla was, she was truly amazing in the sack but both agreed all good things don't last forever so to consider themselves lucky for the times they did have with her. Before letting him go Dave wished Renzo good luck again apologized for being with her while they were involved, for Renzo it was already old news in the past and he was passed that but he accept the apology and was content hearing the news of what happened to Kayla.

The only person who truly knew were Kayla ended up was Kayla herself. After Ted died her body and soul craved the sex she had become accustomed to. She never loved or even liked Ted but she was addicted to sex with him and when he died it left a huge empty void. Sex had become her life, there was nothing else, even her kids meant nothing to her they were simply the unwanted product of sex, that is how she regarded it.

It was twisted and sick logic but she couldn't help herself, on an impulse she boarded a bus and headed out to the south west of America. She knew prostitution was legal in some areas down there, she knew almost nothing else of the area other then the reputation of Las Vegas. She was not entirely interested in money for sex but it was the easiest way to try and satisfy her craving for sex that had been burned into her essence.

Despite being over 30 now she was an instant hit in the local brothels and had many customers, she often insisted only making enough to live on and would fuck for free the rest of the time, she had become a true whore, she accepted it and embraced it, this was now her life.