’ Reluctantly your eyes flutter open, I smile at you. ‘Okay Michael, you may have to hold me up though,’ you say but you are only flirting with...me. Standing, I wrap my arm around you and toss the key to the valet. We walk through the lobby to the elevator, you heavy and warm against me. I’m enjoying the feeling of taking care of you, even in this little way. Knowing that fully awake you can be fiercely independent, this is a little pleasure I’ll sneak in, (forgiving myself for this as I could. So it was that a party of six poachers set out to the remoter parts along the Lualaba river basin where pockets of gorillas were known to be. They left Kalemie on the shore of Lake Tanganyika on a weeklong trek that would take them to the remotest parts. They were heavily armed, not only to kill their chosen quarry, but also as protection, against the Hutu rebels who still roamed the country in small guerrilla groups.They came upon the family group accidentally. Gorillas are quiet, secretive. Her eyes were a stunning blue on such a swarthy babe, which told me right off that she had more than a little French to her as well as Arab. Her hair was jet black, of course, and it now flowed freely down her shoulders, every last lovely curl of it.By contrast, of course, Lucy and Ashley were classic All-American blondes, though Lucy tended toward the platinum blonde and Ashley to the honey color (she was honey-colored all over, given her fine golden tan). Lucy had blue eyes, but Ashley had. I like to have you hold me. It makes me feel good. In my time men and women do not hold each other. I think maybe this is something that our people should not have forgotten."He smiled and hugged her a little tighter and thought to himself that there might be hope for this woman after all. After a while her breathing became regular and he knew that she had fallen asleep. He fell asleep shortly after she did.In the morning he woke up to find her looking at him. She had pulled the covers down and.