He locked eyes with Annette’s and desperately hoped he had not appeared as foolish as he felt. Annette, for her part, was very gracious. She pretend...d to have a normal conversation with Sebastian about business and the weather. Sebastian’s embarrassment faded and he made his way to the weight machine to start his workout. Annette finished her run, pulled her sweatshirt back on, and asked Sebastian if they were still on for dinner. He told her they had a reservation for 7 PM and that he was. Kevin brightened at that, saying he” had read about that, it was called restricted breathing and it may be something worth giving a try sometime. Perhaps make her wear a collar perhaps tighter than normal would do it. They sat, her naked from the waist down and still secure, both men open flied, but clothed watching a show on the television. Occasionally one or the other would slip a hand under Miriam to feel her wet sex, slipping a finger in her till she was showing the first signs of arousal. There were heads or trophy of every a****l on the basement walls. In the middle of the room was a big tent. I could see it was zipped open. I could see a big inflatable mattress just inside. A cooler, and some camping equipment were just outside of the tent. There were even duck decoys spread around the room. I was waiting for husband to jump out behind a fake tree and yell surprise. I did notice there were no pictures of Emma. Only pictures of bikini clad women on posters, catalogs,. Trae pulled the unassuming, little blue-covered book from his pocket. He also suspected what the book was. He’d started reading it again as the ferry took him over the passage between the two islands. He was amazed that he was reading a language he had never seen before.He had worked out the night before that the pages on the right were close enough to the common language that he had no problems except for the odd word or two. The script on the left-hand page, however, was foreign to him, even.