I know I respected most women for their minds as well as their bodies.As time progressed, James moved to the highest stakes games. Like a lot of losin... gamblers, he was trying to recoup his losses quicker but all he did was accelerate the speed with which he lost money. He went from bringing cash to writing checks to signing IOUs. He left each night, explaining that he would have to arrange payment by selling this asset or that and for a time he held true to his word. Then his IOUs began to. She was nude and she was smiling at the camera. I’d never seen her before, she was no one I knew, and at first I figured this was a family picture like everyone has of their kids when they’re little and sometimes the kid is naked. It’s no big deal. I think my mother and Daddy have a couple of me that way.”She wiped her eyes and took a deep breath.“Then I looked again at the picture and saw where her fingers were, and I knew. Or thought I did even if I didn’t want to believe it, Michael.”“Did. Max stuck to it, knowing that it would come in handy even if he never had to face idiots like Rick Mason. Another benefit was that he really enjoyed the exercise, feeling the interplay of muscles and the natural high that seemed to come from working out, from competing physically against another person.When he changed after class, the rest of his group were gone except for Mia Sanboron, who had stayed because she was having trouble with larger opponents and Mr. Buckminster agreed to some extra. It was sexy. It was wickedly naughty. It was wonderfully exciting. After my lover ejaculated inside me, pumping ropes of his semen in my vagina, he left quietly. That's right, he drove me to a series of powerful orgasms and then he left without ever saying a word. I never heard his voice. I never saw his face. I have been haunted by this. I wanted to know who he was. I wanted to meet him, to talk with him. I needed to know who he was. But Jim refused to untie me or to even remove my blindfold.