<em>~Mila, listening to David talk about himself~</em><br/><br/>Mila looked across the table past Bo to David.  His story although not the same as hers, sounded poignantly familiar.  The introduction into the BDSM lifestyle.  The yearning for something else, the desire for polyamory.  Letting down your partner, who thought less of you because of your desire to open your heart to loving freely.  Wasn't that what she'd experienced with Blake?<br/><br/>She wasn't surprised, of course, to find parallels between his story and her own.  After all, there were similarities between all of them.  They were six people who wanted something very unusual from life.  But knowing that he'd felt some of her own heartache helped her accept him a bit more as one of them.  They were all six kindred spirits of sort, all seeking a common goal.  It was the right thing to do, to accept David into their lives.  He was there for the same thing as the rest of them.