She didn’t have a sophisticated rating system. She preferred to focus on the basics. Overall performance. Endurance. Creativity. Her latest lover had a cumulative rating of negative three. Fortunately, that wasn’t why she was with him. Carla looked at Berton as he pulled on his trousers. Dominique’s ex-boyfriend was well made in every department, but didn’t know how to use his equipment to the fullest and she wasn’t in the mood to teach him. So far her affair had proved useful, but not enough. She still didn’t know what her husband was up to and the fact that he was keeping Berton in the dark worried her. Abraham was talking to someone, but who? She hadn’t been able to get anything out of Gloria, who’d tearfully told her that Dominique was mad at her and then explained the reason. Carla listened without care. Gloria had been able to turn her tears off and on since she was a child, but only Dominique hadn’t been able to figure that out.
