“What, to know your mother has a sex drive? I don't think so. I'm not a nun, you know."

“Well, no, I know that, Mom, but..." she trailed off.

Rachel smiled. "Let me guess," she said.

“It's one thing to know it, but another thing to know it?"

Sarah Laughed.

“Right. I mean, I know old people have sex, but..." her eyes widened in alarm and she clapped a hand over her mouth. "Oh, God," she said.

“I didn't mean for it to sound that way. You're not old, Mom.

And two of my last three boyfriends thought you were totally hot!"

“Well, what was wrong with the third one?" Rachel grinned. "Was he gay?

“Don't worry, sweetheart," she continued, laying a hand on her daughter's cheek. "I know what you meant. And I'm glad you cared enough to come up and check on me." As if under someone else's control, the hand which had just recently been deep in her womanly core trailed across Sarah's Lips. She leaned forward and kissed her cheek.

“I'm going to bed now. I've got court early tomorrow, so I'LL be gone when you wake up. Sweet dreams."

As Rachel lay sleeping, Althea pondered the evening's events.

She may have made a mistake, she admitted, in attempting to draw in

Sarah so soon. It would be many days, perhaps weeks, until she had

Rachel's body chemistry changed sufficiently so that her secretions reached the aphrodisiacal potency of one of the succubi. It was one of the dangers of becoming too closely associated with a succubus.

Althea's kind had been using such methods to lure human men and women into their arms for millennia. Rachel's orgasm had helped her regain some power, but it would take dozens, if not hundreds of such orgasms for her to regain her mental and spiritual strength.

Well, what's done is done,~ she sighed. The worst that would happen would be there would be no change in Sarah at all. She might experience a small increase in her sex drive. But as young and attractive as she was, she would probably not even notice.

~I need a man,« she decided. ~A strong, horny man who can give me his seed, over and over again. The strength of men's semen was the secret of the succubi's power. As long as they had access to a virile man, the life-giving potency of his come fed the succubi. It gave them longevity which approached immortality, as well as a host of psychic and physical powers.

Althea smiled, thinking of the men she might be able to draw on.

Joshua, first.~ The passion-laden memories which Rachel had unwittingly shared with her this evening made her eager to meet