She looks at me puzzled but doesn’t say anything. We take all the stuff into the garage and put everything on the workbench.I tell her we are cl...aning out the garage as we load the stuff into my pickup it takes two trips to goodwill but we get all the stuff out of the garage. She looks at me and I tell her to make me lunch. I get the drill out and mount the eyebolts in the wall and floor. Then I cut the wood rods at different lengths and drill holes in them the same size as the rope.she. It relaxes under my hands as I position you. Feathery fingertips now bring sighs instead of giggles.Your skin glows in the flickering candlelight as I kneel astride your hips where you lie prone upon the sheets. Lightly, I brush the silken strands of your golden hair from your face and you smile contentedly.Such trust, from one who seems so small and fragile beneath my brutish bulk, is impossible to fathom, but my heart swells within my chest at the knowledge of its existence.Leaning forward, I. "I am not 'available' to anyone but him."He was quiet. I decided to dig in the spur. "Alliances with our communities must be based upon equality of the communities and of the sexes. It appears that there can be no long term alliance with your people. We will leave you to work out your future but I think it is doubtful that we will be part of it."Shan didn't like that. "We can take what we want."He might have said more but I wasn't going to listen. "All peoples, set up for defense, right now!. " Her too who?" Her. The woman who was in here. The woman I got the guard to remove." I could see the anger in Sharon's eyes."Why should she rot? What did Lauren do?" You know her?" Sharon had a look of disbelief in her eyes."It'd been a long time since I saw her last. But, yes, I know her. Lauren and I used to work together in California a year or so ago. What did she do?" Well, actually she didn't do anything. Not that anyone can prove. But her husband did." Huh?" That guy, the Asian guy who.