Chapter7: What Do We Do Now?

*Canaan* I’m sitting in my room, staring at the wall, sipping a glass of wine when the soft knock on my door comes. It’s later than usual. Normally, entertaining these women at the evening meal only takes an hour or so, but tonight, it’s been nearly two hours since Ellison escorted Bexley away from me. I shouldn’t be too surprised. She is interesting and lovely. Who wouldn’t want to speak to her? “Come in.” I take another sip and wait for Ellison, my Beta, to enter the room. He closes the door behind him and slips into the darkness, taking a seat across from me.  It takes him a moment to speak. All he asks is, “Well?” Normally, he says something like, “We’ll try again. Another girl from such-and-such is turning twenty-one the day after tomorrow,” but even he knows there’s something different with this one. Of course, that may be due to the fact that I insisted he accompany me to her house earlier this morning. It takes a lot to drag a man who hasn’t left his home more than a half a doz