Overnight

The house settles into the final block of the day. Chad is in a deep, dreamless sleep, his mind trying to bury the image of Alexis beneath layers of denial.

Cherie is awake. She has slipped out of bed and gone to her desk, her pen flying across the paper as she writes a scathing, erotic chapter where the King is humiliated by his own weakness, and the Queen turns to the shadows for the satisfaction her husband can no longer provide.

Chloe and Jessica are in Chloe's room. The door is locked. Jason has been sent home, looking frustrated and confused. The two girls are huddled naked together in the dark, having finished what you started in the hot tub before dinner.