” His hand was a blur as it connected with the other side of her face in a hard slap again. The sharp sound of flesh striking flesh echoed loudly in...the empty room. Priya slumped hopelessly against the wall, her legs trembled, and she knew they wouldn’t support her.“You hurt me, bitch,” she heard him snarl as he pressed his hard frame into her soft, quivering body. He cupped her face in his hands, looking at her with hunger and something else that she couldn’t quite identify, but frightened her. Robin’s hand stroked mythigh under the table; I had the sense Beth and Jeffwere fondling each other the same way.Beth and I had agreed on one more detail that we didn’tbother to share with the others. If either of us wentto bed with our new lover, we would remove our weddingring. It would be a simple, visual signal that ourmarriage was finished.***Two weeks later we were on the flight for a longweekend in Bermuda. Beth and I had been there beforefor romantic getaways. It seemed. It's been a bit boring here anyway," he said. He took a cracked cup from a shelf and filled it with water, carrying it over to where Susan was seated. He put the cup on the table in front of her and then walked away.Susan raised an eyebrow. "And how am I supposed to drink that? You've tied my arms," she pointed out.Perkins sighed and then took the cup. He brought it up to Susan's lips and then as she drank it she managed to bring her arms up and over to strike Perkins on the neck, cutting off. Her insides seemed to have acquired a life of their own as they churned and heaved. She gasped heavily for some minutes. " Quite a pretty sight!" thought the Consul. "There are times when life is truly good!" Don't worry, my dear." he said out loud. "You are a woman (and how, he thought!) and they won't beat your soles. Well - not quite as hard as they did that poor chap. You shouldn't get that long inside - in fact they'll most likely be content just to chuck you out of the country. There's a.