With his training base almost double what it had been, Bret decided to take it out fast from the start. At the ten mile mark Bret and two others were ...unning at a near world record pace. Bret was running easily, but one of the others was already beginning to struggle. Bret put in a surge which crushed the struggling runner, and opened up a gap on the other.At fifteen miles Bret was about four hundred yards ahead of second place, and he just put it into cruise control. At the finish, Bret was. " No worries love, see ya." Bye," Sharon said and slipped her phone back into her bag.The ticket office was still open and a man of indistinguishable ethnic origin glumly slid her ticket across the grate without even glancing up from his magazine.Like a hypnotist's spiral, the rain spun around in loops as it was blown down the road in the direction of the Railway Hotel. She was already soaked so re-entering the tempest was not an issue.With the wind behind her, the trip back to the pub was. Would it be that bad? I doubted it. After all, it was only the once and, if it satisfied Nk's craving and got it out of her system, then where was the harm? I was an intelligent, confident adult. I could handle it.“Then lets do it!” I said as NK returned to the booth. “Here, tonight. It’s the perfect situation; we’re away from home in a hotel, there’s a bar full of men and we have a nice room right upstairs. What could suit us better?”Sue immediately flushed red with excitement. I watched her. She would stand for hours at the gate to his stall, looking at him, studying his every movement. And she would reach out now and then and stroke his powerful neck and head.Visiting the horse became a compulsion for the young girl, the most important part of her life. Even when she was away from him, her thoughts were constantly on him.Each time she visited the horse and studied his movements, she would very slowly run one hand up and down between her legs. Just watching the powerful beast.