Christmas dinner was the family, mom and dad and I, los tres Hermanos, Jesse and the hands.Consuela was just what Dan had said, tiny and lots of fun. ... liked her instantly and we talked together through dinner like a couple of magpies. When the hands left the table, Beth and I excused ourselves to do the dishes. Consuela came with us, started helping out like any good, ranch-raised girl. We chattered while we worked. Made me feel really good that Dan had found someone who would really fit into. "Don't look atthose quite yet."It only took a few more seconds for the dealer to hand out the remainingcards, placing each of them face down in front of the players. As soon asthe last card was dealt, he carefully put this deck into his pocket alongwith the other two."Now, we get to the truly interesting part," the dealer announced with agleam in his eyes. "Each of you, please reveal the first card that youdrew."Martin immediately flipped over his card, expecting to see something likea King. He picked up the single tail whip and started on her back. He lashed her hard, hard and fast. Too drunk to do a proper job, too enraged to care, he lashed at her back until her grunts turned into screams of pain. When his arm tired, he stopped, drank some ice water and resumed whipping her, this time on her front.Hearing the screams coming from the dungeon, the sheik came in and observed the whipping from the entry door. He did not know why Manu was beating Lila so hard, nor did he really care.. "He looked at me warily, "What do you want for it?"I smiled and said, "Nothing. I don't need it and you do. Some day you may have something I need and you can pay me back."To paraphrase - One small fender for Tom, one giant step toward my fucking Carole.From that day on you could find the both of us in either his garage or mine. The friendship wasn't phony, I really did like Tom, but that wasn't going to keep me from trying to fuck his wife if I got a chance. Tom invited me over to dinner.