He held the shirt out toward me and I carefully took it, not taking my eyes off of him as I did. The shirt was almost a dress on me, but at least it ...overed what needed to be. It smelled like him. I had to fight myself from burying my nose in it. I need to go home. I mumbled as I tried to collect myself and move past the large man. I was stopped by a thick arm that dragged me flush against him. His breath was a hot whisper against my neck. Mine. it was just a soft rumble, but it held power. There was conversation, not confrontation as reported by the local paper. And finally, Pam has never appeared in Playboy. Pam received the credit card linked to my account and I transferred $5000 to her new checking account later that morning. Arriving at the office, I checked with Cheryl and many people had responded positively to our party invitation. We had invited 90 people. The Bistro would be catering it so that Pam and I could spend all our time with the guests. She was already thinking. .. with pieces of an asteroid going into one end to bring raw materials in and a new pod budding off from it on the other end. As pods get completed, they get placed onto the outside of the freighter my pod is attached to. This was the seventeenth pod transport I was stocking since I had arrived in-system over a year before, and, when it was fully loaded, my pod would be detached and be left floating until the next empty transport arrived to collect a set of empties. We had one more day and the. She had stopped crying and was chatting about things in general. She never liked talking about her tormentors. I turned onto our street and Sally leaned over and kissed my cheek. “Thank you, Billy. I've never really told you how much I've appreciated your help all these years.” I told her, “That's alright Sally. You know I care about what happens to you.” She looked up at me and smiled. I then had an urge to do something I had never done with her before. “Sally, would you go out with me.