Everyone who was still in the dining room helped to clean up after the meal, and do the dishes. Then Camilla and the former nymphs went into Lex’s office to use one of his computers—with Dirk’s permission, since Lex wasn’t available to give it. The women wanted to decide how best to let their families know they were alive.
“Which is going to make them happy, I hope,” Susan said. “Or make them think we’re scammers or something, not us. So we need to get the wording just right.”
“You’re going to email them, instead of calling?” Dirk asked.
“I think it depends on what our situations were before he kidnapped us,” Alice replied. “Reni said my parents thought I ran off with some guy they didn’t approve of. How do I explain that’s not what happened? As far as that goes, how do any of us explai
