Either way, it wouldn’t be able to directly help the army. All it could do was make life more miserable for the defenders. And the innocent bystande...s, if there were any.Anyway, once the engines had been unloaded, Jayport’s warships went back to the strait to make sure that no one bothered the army from that direction.I was in the big cleared area at the foot of the road helping the Jakes assemble the siege engines, okay, I was supervising some people who knew what they were doing and didn’t. I don’t want to follow the rules of a community. I just need somebody to give herself completely to me, to feel rewarded by succumbing to my will, to rejoice in all the pleasure, the pain, the feeling of being completely and ultimately exposed, fragile, open. In reward, she wouldn’t have to worry about not a single thing in the world, because being mine, I’d take care of her, all of her, heart, body, and mind.”I stopped, getting out of my reverie looking at her to seize her reaction. She looked. “Me too.” I added.“She was the only person I ever loved, you know, like that. She was …”“… something else,” I finished off her sentence, knowing that we felt exactly the same about the slut, my Little Girl, Red’s lover.“There’s been no one else since,” the flame-haired girl added pensively.“There will be, in time,” I offered paternal words of wisdom.“Did you ever hear from her folks?” I asked.She slowly shook her head. “I never made contact. Why would I. What was the point?”She was right of. Maude pulled her companion into her arms and, they were once more locked in a warm embrace, their lips joining. As their tongues lashed, their bodies pressed together, warm flesh against warm flesh. After the kiss was over, Maude rolled Eileen onto her back and began raining soft, teasing kisses everywhere on the woman’s slender body. Her hair caressed Eileen, a silken touch that soon had Eileen writhing and straining with need. A soft hand combed through Eileen’s excitement-dampened pubic.