"You need to know that more than anything else I want us to be together." she grabbed my hands in hers and looked into my eyes."Rob, we've done our du...y to society. We raised two great kids. Sure we've both made some mistakes, but you're still the man I want to spend the rest of my life with and..." I can't tell," I said. "What kind of woman repeatedly takes another man's side over her husband? I'm not sure I want to be married to that kind of woman." What are you talk ... Rob, you aren't. It’s…just…no one has ever done that to me before. Has ever made me feel like that before. And….’ She turned that familiar shade of pink. ‘What?’ ‘And…I…you…what you did to my ass…I…I…kinda….’ ‘Liked it?’ She looked away and buried her face in his shoulder. ‘Yes. I liked it. I liked it. I shouldn’t have, but I did.’ ‘And why should you have not liked it?’ She looked up at him. ‘Because! I was sodomized! It was horrible. I can’t tell you how much it hurt. But…but when you did it….’ She buried her. . not their children, but the children of their lesser neighbors ... didn't matter ... the freedom of commerce must be paid for with the blood of patriotsAs part of their wider strategy of containment, which aimed to stop the spread of communism, the U.S. government viewed American involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam.The North Vietnamese viewed the conflict as a colonial war, fought initially against France, then against America as France was backed. " She smiled at my evident confusion, but her next remark did nothing to make it any easier. "But you'll probably want to tie me up first, won't you?"I almost dropped my gun."I mean, so you can go through the safe. I don't think there's much in there but, you'll want to have a good look and you can't really rely on me standing here like this can you? Anyway, I'll get tired with my hands up like this." Oh, all right," I said. She smiled. "I don't suppose you've got any rope have you?"She shook.