Love your woman well, she shared your suffering too. She's stood by you, not many do this day and age."Leaning back, he hands Beth an envelope with in...tructions not to be opened until they reach the Nevada border, and whispers to her he put six bottles of his finest wines in the trunk. They watch as he hobbles back to his Cadillac STS. Jaime recognizes the Vietnam ribbon on the tag, as well as lt. colonel insignia.Two hours later they've left the smog laden valleys of California for the high. ." I said honestly, seriously and letting it ring.She took yet another moment to think and I did my best not to force her answer, even if I had a meeting happening."You're some kind of fetishist, aren't you?" She asked still a little breathless."You can say so..." So you will hurt me, won't you? Eventually." She asked apprehensive, but not frightened at all.I took a deep breath and answered the truth, "Yes, I will." Will I have you if I become your slave? I mean, really have you...?" She said. ”“Did you practice this?” Caine asked dryly.“Yes!” the Old Man roared. “I have had a lifetime to imagine what I would say to you, and for once in your miserable life you’re going to listen.” He lunged forward in a perfectly trained balestra. He wasn’t as strong or as fast as he once was, but he’d clearly kept up his practice and his angry words didn’t erode his control at all.“Fine,” Caine sighed, flicking his sword against the sudden attack and circling for room. “Go ahead.”“I have nothing. “They stood there about, oh, ten feet apart and started shooting at each other. One girl had her back about halfway to us, so we really couldn’t see anything. I saw her jerk, though, so I knew that she’d been shot.“The other girl,” Jake continued, “well, she just blazed away at her opponent while little bursts of red appeared on her stomach and breasts. One girl on the floor near us took a bullet right between her eyes. The guy who was having sex with her didn’t even notice, but that’s probably.