He was punishing her by starving her to death; she had only two meals in over a week. "I don't know how much longer I would have been able to stay ali...e," she finally told me."I'm glad you are still alive," I told her.Billie snuggled up to my back and asked, "Fred can we have sex?" Will it embarrass Jojo and Ellie?" I asked in return."No, Fred. I want it and they want to see it. I told them how gentle you were. They don't believe it," she explained.So Billie and I had sex, I had missed it for. He turned to leave the room to talk with Jack. It was time for him to layout the eighteen components that he wanted to have polled.A shiver went through Sandra at his words. Surprising herself, she said, "Thank you William. I love you, too."William froze and turned to look at Sandra. He didn't know what to say and just stared at her. Seeing his obvious confusion, Sandra pretended as if she hadn't said anything significant. With a little shooing gesture, she said, "Get to work. Jack is waiting. He looked back out the window and noted they were now turning onto another taxiway, the landscape spinning slowly to another angle. They began to accelerate again, the lines on the ground picking up speed as they shot past them. A female voice from the intercom system then began to speak."Good morning, my butt buddies," it said. "What the fuck's the haps? They call me Lauren and I'll be flying this heap of shit for you today. We're talkin' about one hour and thirty-three minutes from lift-off. He smiled and greeted me cordially. We chatted for a momentand he asked politely if he could enter. I didn't want to blow the dealwe'd just made, so I invited him in. I pointed to the sitting room'splush divan -- when I'm on a sales assignment, a well-appointed suiteis not out of the question.He told me what he drank and I poured it for him. I was again dismayedat being a woman trapped in a man's body, in a man's world. I -- thewoman -- had never tasted his choice. I looked around.