So put the glass down and stand up.'Neil tried to focus on the man doing all the talking. Everything in the room began to blur as the drug began to ta...e hold of his nervous system. 'Yes, I must take off my clothes,' he mumbled to himself. 'And I must...''Do exactly as you are told,' interrupted Paul, stepping forward and taking the glass away from the bewildered bank clerk. 'Now stand up and get naked.'Neil tried to lift himself off the sofa, but flopped back down again.'Help the fool stand up,. Suddenly, he lowered his paper and uttered the words that were to break her heart. ‘Fern,’ he said, looking at her uneasily, ‘I don’t know how to tell you this….hell, there is no way I can break it to you gently. There’s someone else in my life Fern, I love her and I want a divorce.’ Fern had stood, momentarily numbed, her back to him, scarcely able to comprehend the words he had spoken. Unbelieving she asked, ‘What…what did you say?’ ‘I want a divorce,’ he repeated, this time more firmly. . “What you will have to understand, is that besides working for your keep, you’ll have to live by our rules. While they are few; breaking one, even accidentally, can get you killed. The big rule is: I’m the boss and everyone obeys me. Now I’ll admit to you that I’m not a dictator. I do have a council of advisors who help me govern the community; but when a decision needs to be made, I make it, and my people accept it. They actually expect me to do that. It is the way they’ve always been led.“The. Do you want me to do yours, Love?” Lauren looked at me coyly then nodded: “If you wouldn’t mind!” As soon as she started to unbutton and unzip her jeans and wiggle out of them I turned my back on the pair of them. Lauren giggled.“it’s okay, Ricky, I’m decent—kind of!” she said after a couple of minutes. What she classed as decent was sitting cross-legged on the bed with her shirt pulled down as far as it would go at the front, so that it just about covered her embarrassment; although by so.