Chapter Twenty-One
Double Up
The trial outcome was a no-brainer. In twenty minutes, the judge handed down not-guilty on all counts and we went home that night to celebrate.
Spared from her pony role for a week, Carol went willingly back to her solitary stall in the barn’s basement and Duet returned to her groom’s role. I had a feeling that the two of them spent a pleasant night in Carol’s stall. The video surveillance confirmed that. The rest of us worked out some interesting bed-sharing arrangements where everyone got laid at least three or four times in the next twenty four hours. The non participants got locked up in the cellar for a day or two.
Porter, an old buddy of Ellen’s, arrived on Saturday afternoon. He had texted Ellen the week before and asked if he could bring a “specia
