Anyway, be prepared for all of us to go away this weekend pony trekking. It may be short notice, but Jake has a way of making things happen.”Jake ca...led her back late on Sunday night to confirm the booking and asked if she wanted to go out for dinner sometime in the week, “Not just you, Gill, all of you”, he added. So he took Gill out for dinner dates a couple of evenings that week, once as a ‘family group’ in company with Jenny and Clay, to a small family-run and family-friendly restaurant. The big block motor, cruising at eighty, effortlessly ate up the West Texas miles, Eastward bound. Soft leather seats, cool jazz, dim lights and cool AC soothed body and mind. Drinking gas like a hole in the tank, with "fleece" payments higher than our mortgage, the SUV bored a hole through the night. Damn, but I loved that thing!I was driving, sharing the front seat with my wife Joan, and her old friend Beth. I was just coming off a rotation on the eleven to seven trauma shift in the ER, so I. In one hand he held a leash and in the other my water. His face was covered by a full head and face mask that had a cock-sized opening at the mouth and small holes about the size of a paper-hole punch would be in where his eyes were and below his nostrils. He could barely see, and I was amazed at how de-humanizing it was. Very hot. The only other opening was a rounded hole that extended from his belly-button down and through his crotch to his lower back- much that way leather chaps do. If. The trickling figure stood in the centre of a shallow square pool, surrounded by smooth flag stones and then by a grassed border skirting up to a colonnaded cloister that hemmed the garden in, providing a screen to the outside world.I took her small hand in mine to lead her away from the site of our tryst, to the coolness of the house I had had built in a Roman style.She hesitated as if frightened by the sudden change of light. A gently guiding hand at the small of her back motivated her.