Of course - she must say goodbye to Annalise!

Esther's sure her family will wait for her; and besides, she wishes to say farewell to her friend! Darting around the edges of the ballroom, Esther makes her way into the hall and down toward the door from which she can hear voices coming: the house's small library. Just as she's approaching the door, though, she comes up short. Voices are coming out of the room - Annalise's and Percy's - but she's just heard her name!

Feeling suddenly both shy and curious, Esther creeps closer to the door, listening carefully.

"...and Esther is really a lovely girl, Percy. I think we should seriously consider it!" Annalise is saying. There are some muffled noises for a moment: rustling fabric, a sort of humming from Annalise and what sounds like a hum from Percy as well. What that could portend, Esther can't imagine.

"{if Percy-Esther > 0}I agree that she's a lovely girl, Lise. Not much to speak of in the way of tits or ass, but she's biddable enough and I could feel her responding to me. She'd be easy to break," Percy says with a laugh.{else}Hmmmmph. She seemed rather cold and prudish to me, and not likely to respond well to the way we travel. Really, Lise, what's the point in cultivating a girl that's going to be so much trouble to get into bed?" Percy grumbles.{endif}

"Is that all you ever think of?" Annalise asks, sounding exasperated.

"Of course not. But you know me - it's a lot." Both of them chuckle at that, and Esther feels a blush stealing onto her face. Are they talking about her as...as a conquest? "Come on, to work," Percy says.

There's another rustling of fabric, and a strange wet sound. Percy lets out a long sigh. {if Percy-Peggy > 0}"What about that other Foxhaven girl - Peggy?" he asks as the wet sound continues. "Now, she seemed like a pliable girl - and a nicer figure than Esther, too. I got a good handful of her ass earlier and she didn't even object! I bet I could have her on all fours within the week if I put my mind to it."{endif}

"It's just that - mmm - I've known Esther - mmah! - since I was very young, Percy," Annalise says. She keeps interrupting herself, for some reason. "{if Percy-Peggy > 0}Peggy's - hmmm - a fine girl, too, I - oum - I know, but we were never - schlick - as close. {endif}It would mean - gack - the world to me to have Esther along."

Esther's curiosity bests her now and, wanting to know what on earth these noises are, she slinks forward and puts her eye up to the crack in the doorway. She barely stifles a gasp at what she sees.

In the library, pretty, full-figured Annalise is on her knees, red hair swaying as she sucks industriously on Percy's manhood. Clearly she's been at it since he told her to "work;" there's a sheen of saliva already on his surprisingly large, curved member. Annalise looks up at him as she continues to do so, fondling his balls with one hand as she strokes his shaft with the other, green eyes wide as she sucks and tongues his glans.

"Aaagh," Percy groans, clearly enjoying this treatment. "Well, you know that whatever happens, if anyone else comes with us, you won't have me all to yourself, right? I must be true to my philosophy - free love! The abolition of marriage!" He smirks down at Annalise. "And so far, no woman I spend much time with has been able to resist my magnetism."

Annalise chuckles and nods, bobbing her head all the way down his cock and taking it into her throat. Esther, staring frozen through the doorway, can feel her loins starting to tingle as she watches her pretty friend on her knees. Percy groans and clutches Annalise's head, pumping his hips firmly a few times into her willing mouth.

"Ah, but enough of that," he says hoarsely. "We can talk of that later. Come on, my slut." Shoving some papers to the floor, he pulls a laughing Annalise to her feet and tosses her onto the desk. Annalise helps him pull up her skirt and they both let out a groan as he plunges into her. Esther swallows hard as she watches Annalise's face, turned upward in ecstasy as Percy begins to plow her.

"Oh, fuck, Percy," Annalise is saying breathlessly. "Fuck me! Take me, Percy!"

"With pleasure, my little Lise," he growls. As he begins to fuck her harder, he takes a handkerchief from his pocket and wads it up, stuffing it into her mouth to muffle her cries of pleasure. He grips her by the waist as he pounds away and then - and then he glances up and, quite by accident, makes direct eye contact with Esther!

He smirks, winks, and grasps Annalise firmly by the hair as he begins to fuck her harder - clearly putting on a show as the red-headed girl moans louder. Esther gasps and hides behind the door.

"Miss Foxhaven?" she hears a distant voice call. Whirling, blushing, and completely flustered, she turns, looking for the voice. A dozen yards away, at the end of the hall, she sees the uniformed and frowning visage of the Bellingtons' elderly butler, Grimes. "Your family is looking for you, Miss Foxhaven!" he calls (the man has always been rather deaf). "It's not proper for you to wander alone through the master's home."

"I - of course, Grimes. I'm sorry!" Esther hurries away from the door, cheeks burning and mind whirling with the implications of what she's overheard. As her family piles into their coach, she's silent and distant, mind racing. She feels dazed. What could this all mean? Only time will tell, that much is clear. She must talk with Annalise...as soon as possible...