I shook my head, "no rough stuff. They said you can fuck them so be nice."He nodded and I left and headed towards the merchant's quarters. I packed ev...rything that belonged to the girls and a few things the merchant had. I moved the closest chests out first and set them in the corridor beside the captain's hatch. I came back for the jewelry chest and then leaned against the wall to wait.It was awhile before the hatch opened and Sam came out. He had a huge smile on his face as he walked away and. Nate took a step back from me, and with one hand still enfolding mine, led me back out across the hall, and through the doorway opposite. ‘This is my study.’ The room was dark, the curtains drawn. There was another fireplace here, this one unlit. The walls were lined in bookshelves, each crammed to the bursting point. In the centre of the room there was a monstrously large desk covered in a layer of papers and file folders. There was no computer, but there was an old typewriter on a small. She neverobjected to Mrs. Brown's methods of correcting a young boys behaviorwhich meant I had no alias which made me obedient and submissive toboth women.My best friend was a girl named Carol Baker. She was our nabour, shealways intrigued me because she was what you'd call a girly girl. Shealways wore dresses and petticoats. Her mother also wore dresses andnylons high heels everyday, she reminded me of Donna Reed the perfecthousewife and mother who kept her daughter as a sweet innocent. "You seem young to be smoking," he said, lighting my cigar.I spluttered, before saying: "I am older than I look." I had a feeling that you might be," he said. "It seemed to me thatyou know what you are looking for." I don't understand?" But of course, I did.He did not drive home his advantage. He puffed on his cigar with ease.I was having trouble with mine. It seemed to need a strong suck, but Idid not want the smoke in my lungs."It's a beautiful evening," he said. "And here I am with a.