This guy seemed to care about me and he seemed to want to be with me and i wanted to be with him. i had to be somewhere. that did it for me and i jus... blurted out that i had to admit that i wanteed to make love with him. he excited me more than any guy ever had and i was tired of being a virgin. i wanted to fuck and i wanted to fuck HIM tonight. even though he was so much older than me, he was still the nicest guy id ever known. to this day i don't know why i said all that. i usually don't. Perhaps I could have done something to change him. But...”“But?”“I was just an ideological child when he embraced me. And before I could learn the reality, the purge began. We had to disappear into the tunnels, far into the depths, into tunnels only he knew about. Before I could learn what sort of man he really was, he went into torpor, to sleep until ... better times.”Through it all, Maria didn’t stop playing. “He trusted you with his life, Burksen. I remember, before Antoinette began the. Toni sorted as I loaded things under the coach and brought in those things they would need immediately.I called my road service provider from a pay phone at the next rest area, which was just a couple of miles east and arranged for them to pick up the car and take it to their lot, keep it for the insurance adjuster and contact Toni at her home in Kansas. She seemed grateful for my intervention but still shaken from dramatic the change in plans.We were in New Mexico and Kansas was a two day. She lay still for a few minutes trying to assess the situation. She recalled vividly the events of the preceding night. Vividly. She had been taken over and over again by Sam Hall’s friend or henchman or whatever he was. The huge man didn’t seem to tire or ever go completely soft.Part of Sally’s mind wanted to think of what had happen as making love, but she knew there was little, if any, love involved. It had been nothing but raw passion and she had been truly fucked, a word that had not been.