She loves to be touched, to be massaged. I know her body as intimately as any lover. She trusts me to touch her because she knows me. She knows my spi...it. She trusts me and that’s something so beautiful it makes me weak just to feel it sometimes oh gawd it’s AMAZING considering how she’s been abused. It’s a fucking benediction is what it is to me. I’m the only one who knows her body’s pain. I pull it out of her and get rid of it. I know her secret triggers and where all the nerve ganglions are. "We made a date for lunch tomorrow and following that, a tour of his truck. I had to know if I still have a chance with Doug. The only way left was to try the extreme measure. I wondered if my new fuck-buddy was game for it. I called him on the phone."Hi! I hope it is OK with you if I call you Charlie. Look. Er....I have a special request of you. Er...Can you still perform with a third party present? Er....I would like my son Doug watching us doing it." I had to be sure because none of the. ” He looked at the woman “On the body of your husband I found this key. If you do not wish to join him, you will tell me what it’s for. If not then you, your son and your daughter will join those men outside. Your choice.”The woman looked at him as if he were the devil incarnate. Her head dropped and she took a deep breath. “It’s for the barn outside.”“Good. Now then, what’s in the barn outside that needs such a lock?”“It’s the stuff from all the travellers he, my husband that is, taxed. It’s. ”“Damn. I was really hoping there still was someone else in the chain of command, in the continuity of government. That’s not the best news I’ve had today, Richter.”“Grand Zealot Richter, if you please. Why is that, and why should I care?”“If you insist, we can do the title game, but I suspect you’re not going to like mine very well or how it’s going to turn out,” I said, with a slight chuckle.He looked askance at that. “Oh, and why is that?”“I’m Governor Tina Wilson, lawful and legal Governor.