"I asked him if he wanted salvation from the pain and the shame that he boreHe answered he wanted his life back, and to be with the love of his life.I...told him to strip off his clothing and went to replace them from a storeI returned to see his manhood imprisoned by a belt put on by his wife.The bolt cutters make short work of the shackles of the cruel metal lockThe acetone cleared away polish and nails and the oversize factitious dugsThe ready room shower removed the makeup and scent that gave. She loved him fiercely and just watching him sleep filled her with contentment. The two years they had been together had been the happiest of her life, and for the past year she had been Mrs. Jake Turner.She and Jake and Jana had looked forward to this week away for months, ever since her friend Karen had first broached the topic of a sailing vacation. It was to be a time, without cell phones or schedules and the first vacation in more than a year for both of them. Their last vacation had been. On a positive note, Charles was certainly glad this had come up now because he had already agreed in principle to giving Randal a quarter share of TFA Superstores in exchange for expansion capital.Charles headed up to bed but Helen said she needed to talk to Jacob for a minute. They walked out to the pool deck and sat at the round umbrella table farthest from the house.“Do you think Maria is in on this too?” Helen asked.“I’ll find out tomorrow. She’s picking me up after church so we can. ‘Goodnight Chris,’ she answered heading for the toilet. He had just started to think that she wasn’t coming when the door of the wardrobe slipped open and she stepped through, naked. ‘Thought you weren’t coming.’ ‘I wasn’t sure,’ she said yawning, ‘I’m knackered to tell the truth.’ ‘It has been a long day though hasn’t it.’ ‘Yeah, hasn’t it just.’ ‘Look, I’ll set the alarm and we can just have a cuddle…’ he stopped in mid-sentence, after all, their relationship was about sex, wasn’t it? She.