..I cringed into my straw.Hating everything and everybody.I felt the tug of the lead-rein. The fury in me rose like bile. Then subsided. Around me wer... a score or more women enduring similar barbarities.A sickness sped through me. Then it passed.Suddenly, lying there, a kind of electric shock passed hit me.I had remembered...Oh dear God... oh dear God... I was to be punished that very morning!They had announced it.The previous evening...Two dozen... followed by two dozen.Oh dear God... I. Both engines were pulled for testing. The bottom end of the noisy one grenaded during the test run-up at the boat yard. Big holes in the concrete. The other engine developed the same tick 20 minutes later.”“I see,” and I did. 40 minutes or less and the bottom of the boat under the engine would have been a big hole. Trying to save her with the other engine would have blown that one, too. I gave it a think.“They replaced the engines,” I surmised.“Not exactly, I mentioned the work for the Japanese. She lay back, naked, her brown skin a contrastto Melissa's ivory white and lifted her hand in invitation, a smile acrossher face. Melissa approached Jess, planting another kiss on Jess's pink lips, workingher tongue slowly into the younger girl's mouth, and twirling her tongue withJess's. She then moved down Jess's neck, nipping the younger girls flesh withher lips, moving past the collar bone, and coming to rest on a pale pink nipple.Melissa had never kissed a girl's nipple before and. They were both holding both hands and their entire body-language was telling me they were fully focussed on the other. I coughed as I entered and asked if they wanted drinks, attending to the forgotten cups and getting a third for Kazumi. Laura turned to me, coughing a little when I looked up her towel before looking at her.“It’s your fault.”“Beg pardon?” I asked.“Our embarrassment, it’s your fault. You know Kazumi has dinner in the day and supper at night. You should have been clearer. More.