I'm ready."He panted a few times more, gasping as if the air was slowly being sucked from his lungs, then dug his hands into my shoulders. The pain wa... intense, but so was this feeling of animalistic passion. Lifting his body nearly off the bed, he began to fire into my mouth. One, two, three, four...I lost count at eighteen viscous globs ricocheting off the back of my mouth, all bearing faint traces of lemonade. I swallowed every drop and grinned at him like a damn fool."You are INSANE. But I. Evadne considered for some moments. 'I don't think they will, either of them,' she said at last. 'By now, they'll be deep in their little private worlds, and when we take them from their sties they'll conclude they're about to released.' I said nothing. I was recognising the truth of what she'd said about the 'little private worlds' of our guests. When I visited them between feeds, I would find them lying peacefully in the mud of their sties, grunting softly in mindless contentment in perfect. Will doesn’t think that is safe so he likes at least two. He loves to sail her, which is why we didn’t hire a crew in Britain. I was supposed to fly on ahead and he’d sail Bee Jay here then hand her over to the crew so we could just relax and enjoy each other’s company.’‘Why the change of plan?’‘Will had been away for a long time, I just wanted to be with him as much as possible.’‘What about Mr Betts, Ryan? Did he and Mr Wainwright get on?’‘Yes, I think so. They had something in common, they. . You see it too, don’t you?”“I do. By myself, though, I didn’t feel like I was – could be – really a part of it. Has something to do with family.”“Extended family. Tribe. An island ... all kinds of sociological stuff,” she said. “Condensed right down to ‘Mimi loves Tommy’.”“Tommy loves Mimi just as hard...” I said, NOT meaning the double entendre that my happy partner latched onto immediately.“I LIKE hard,” she said. “You gave me that, Tommy. Made me a whole woman ... fulfilled.”“Oh, I know.