Their lips joined and with all their effort, kept them together as they kissed, removing the rest of their clothes, then stood naked in the firelight....Tom looked into Deb’s eyes, sparkling with passion, as he held her hot, naked, invitation to him closely, then whispered in her ear. ‘It means, I love you eternally.’ ‘Oh Tom, I love you, Baby.’ she breathed out passionately as she kissed him. Tom squeezed her ass cheeks and lifted her up so she was level with him. Deb knew what he wanted to do. This realization snapped her quickly to panicked reality.Looking down and to her sides, she realized she was tied to a rough wooden cross, arms stretched out across the top beam, knees slightly bent, ankles bound above a small block jutting from the wood, on which her feet rested. Deeply terrified by her own struggle to breathe, she pushed up on the block with her legs and sucked for air in quick panicked gasps.Dizzying waves washed over her brain as her rapid chuffing threatened to take her. ’ ‘I can imagine. Especially after they got you so often in the beginning.’ ‘That was pretty horrible indeed.’ ‘It took me quite some effort to come to terms with it all,’ Ashley said, looking at the wall. ‘I had to disconnect myself from my body. I had to tell myself all the time, don’t let them play with your mind. Don’t let them play with your mind. They only care about your body. And when I started to realise that indeed they only want my body, it got easier. The last day I actually managed. When Jacklin pressed a button — usually with no warning whatsoever to the assembled guests — the entire floor descended, chairs, guests, and all, into a room one story down where all the screening equipment was kept. It was a dramatic enough experience the first time one underwent it, but by the second time it already seemed like nothing more than a boring and childish piece of ostentation. Still, one was expected to ooh and aah, so I oohed and aahed dutifully as the floor carried us down to.