This particular Bad had about ten large rooms devoted to either pool sized hot tubs, saunas, or steam baths. While mom was busy chatting away in the b...g steam room, I was on the other side making friends with a Black guy about twice my age and very interested in my company. We were sitting on a railing surrounding a cold water pool. People didn't go in this pool, but sometimes splashed themselves when they thought they were getting too hot. At one point Karl got up to do something and when he. .. I promise it will be between us... I can’t tell anyone either"... I didn't say anything... took her to her room... tucked her in the bed and came out to attend to my work... At lunch time I went to see her... she was sleeping... I was about to step out and close the door when I heard her calling "mamma"... I was losing my control... I turned back and said "yes dear"... her arms were stretched out to hug me... I ran and took her in my arms... I sat on the bed leaning to the back rest... held. The last thing I wanted was for my Mom and Dad to become lust-driven sex fiends for the sake of my own sanity and also the potential nausea. ‘Absolutely sure, young man, as I was once infected myself. In the end, I won, but the…’ her lips peeled back into a grin over broken, yellow, piano key teeth, ‘intercourse was fun while it lasted.’ At the thought of the gremlin engaged in any activity of a sexual nature, I almost puked. *** We spent the first half of the ride back in total silence. The. Kate pushed those thoughts away – it was that kind of vain thinking that spelled disaster for her marriage.She sat in her beach chair and went back to watching the workers as they went about their daily duties trying to refloat the Concordia, but, lost in thought, she really didn't see them. Over the months, she'd made numerous trips to Giglio Island and to the rocky promontory on which she set up her little camp where she kept vigil. She thought about it and concluded this was her fifth trip.