With it out of the way it was only the work of moments to clear an opening large enough for him to climb through. He poked his head in first, finding ... tiny landing with narrow steps that led up and down. Faint glimmerings of light filtered in through occasional chinks in the illfitting stones, and Mak could see that the dust on the steps was deep and undisturbed. He climbed through the opening, then reached back and carefully replaced the loose stones so that the wall once again seemed solid. She didn’t have long to wait. Out of the corner of her eye from her inverted position, she saw his arm go up and then felt the searing bite of the cane as it blazed across the centre of her bottom. The second bit deeply into her backside an inch below the first and the third cut an inch above it. He paused in his labours and watched as three angry red lines appeared across the girl’s rump. He watched as her hands came behind and held a cheek apiece, and started to knead the smarting flesh. ‘If. Sophie turning to me with a really heartfelt “Thanks for the day, Dad.”Tom and I did a bit of star gazing but then realised we had one of the higher peaks to traverse tomorrow, so early to bed, early to rise, seemed like a good idea too.Geez, were we guys up early. Break of dawn stuff and the view of the rising sun over The Pound ridges was superb. Probably nothing would top it for the day. It was amazing. Shadows replaced by light. Stunning.Tom and I were both thinking the girls could have. In a move that even surprised me, Linda pulled the wife beater over her head and stood topless next to the spa. She then laid on her back on a lounge chair. I was looking out the window and I saw that Josh didn’t immediately notice what Linda had done. He continued to rake, but Linda didn’t budge. About five minutes later, Josh looked up from raking and glanced at Linda. His reaction was classic. At first he quickly looked away, but then he slowly looked back at her as he.