”“I don’t mind. Tell me.”“Well, it’s difficult in the actual office, because of the danger of being seen. So I asked Ms Mergan if she’d ...ind staying on for an hour or so, to sort out the conference room upstairs.”“I’m assuming she did.”“She was more than happy to.”“Did you give her any indication that something might…”“Oh, Ms Mergan doesn’t need any indication. ‘Anything to please you, Mr Cummins,’” was what she said.”“Did she mean what I think she meant?”“You know very well she did.”“Mmmmm!. Somehow, he managed to keep her calm until he got there but when she saw him it all came out. She cried and hung on him as if her life depended on it and maybe it did.“This is what you meant isn’t it?” She asked.“I’m afraid so. Can you walk?” He asked, “I want to get you somewhere safe and at this hour I think that’s the beach house.”With his arm around her, he helped her walk to the beach house.“I know you don’t want to be alone, but I need to get back to your condo to check things out. I want. He’s always thinking about how to bring us home to our families alive.”“Always?” Jackie’s concubine asked.“I’m not sure I can concentrate on it when my concubines are trying to get me to submit to their whims,” I said cheerfully. “But I do spend a lot of time worrying about what we are going to be doing.”“What is the plan? I know we have orders,” Sergeant Bruce asked.“We have been asked to jump past our nemesis system of Gee One Dash numbers. We’ll be visiting up to a dozen systems in the space. I try to focus on my breathing to clear my head . When I try to move , I realize I am bound and I become dizzy as I can not feel the ground beneath me . I open my eyes and though they are still not completely in focus I realize that I am not at home any more . I am in a big building , a warehouse possibly from what little I can bring into focus . As I look at the ground my head starts spinning and I have to close them again to keep from throwing up . I realize I am in danger , and I fight back.