THWACK!The Emir took another mouthful of duck and chewed ruminatively for a moment. Derek ate mechanically, fascinated by the punishment he was witnes...ing, and acutely aware of the raging erection it had occasioned.Whish ... THWACK!“Yes,” the Emir continued, “I would like you to stay on here, after whatever you are doing for Hajji Darwish Dosmukhamedov is finished, naturally, and go through the Golden Palace organisation looking for economies that might be made.”Whish ... THWACK!“It is not, you. We cried into each other's shoulders and rocked each other for comfort. After a time, I got up and fixed us a drink, whiskey on the rocks, just as I know my dad would have done following bad news. We talked quietly about the whole thing and had some more drinks. It was well into the night when we each decided to get to bed.I never even changed out of my trunks and t-shirt. I just sat on the edge of my bed in shock. Thoughts swirled in my drunken head, thoughts of self-pity, regret, and sorrow. As the pilot spooled down the engines Bert headed straight for the professor and held out his hand, "Professor Porter, I'm Commander Bert Murray. If your people are ready we'll get them aboard and be on our way." We're ready, Commander," replied the professor, giving his hand a perfunctory shake. "We'll begin loading immediately."She stepped back into the base and waved to a man by the door. He was already wearing his environmental helmet and as soon as the doorway was clear he picked up a. .. well that what he called them, I thought of them as perverts... and they would try to pull my clothes off." Diana gave a gasp at that but then kept quiet, "Well... again that was alright... then one day... I was told to forget my... my underwear... I told them no way! I wasn't going to let a group of perv's see me naked!... They took me to the basement." She began to sob, Diana hold onto her, rocking away to comfort her granddaughter.Diana looked at Veronica, anger in her eyes. "Why the hell.