"Chloe looked too stunned to speak. Renée seemed shocked but didn't look it."Whisper says more are on the way already. Please, do as I ask. As soon a... I know you're safe then I can go in a different direction and hide too. Okay?"Erin nodded and hugged me again. "God, I hope you're right Ral. I don't want anything to happen to you but we can't do anything to defend ourselves."I pulled her back and looked her in the eyes. "Yes you can. Take my laptop with you. It has a copy of Master PC in it.. Nancy had done something fairly minor, but he called her into his room which always meant a whipping. As always she obeyed, wanting it over and done with. She followed him into the dark windowless room with one lamp burning, and he closed the door and locked it, which was unusual. His mouth stern as ever under his graying moustache, he pushed her roughly against a chest of drawers and forced her to bend over it with one massive rough hand while with the other he lifted her skirt. Picking up the. We got there to find two other couples sitting and drinking next to the pool. I was the outsider, the new guy, they all knew each other well and swapped stories about fun times they had shared together. I kicked into shy mode again, listening but saying little. The day wore on, the meat was placed on the fire, more beers were opened and I began to loosen up. In true South African style at a braai (barbecue), the men hang around the fire watching the meat, sharing their limited culinary. She laughed, "Come on, you can look all you want after you get comfortable. Do you want a shower?" Actually, I just got out of the shower, thanks."I followed her into a smaller room which was dominated by a platform about four feet wide and maybe six feet long. There was a flannel-covered pad on it about butt high on me, and perhaps navel high for Lucy. At one end was a low padded step. I felt a delicious anticipation growing, along with another, more earthy reaction.She turned on some quiet.