‘You were so young, and I had to be slow and gentle with you, when all the time I was tempted to go further.’ She smiled and rested her head again...t his chest, his heart beating in her ear. ‘You can go as far as you want now.’ ‘Okay, you two are going to have to row in from here,’ Smithy said a while later, when they were much closer to shore. ‘Drop anchor,’ Nick ordered, and Smithy repeated the order louder to the men. ‘In you go,’ Nick said, picking Allison up around the waist and putting. We normally made love three or four times a week, but for nine days all I heard was:"Not tonight Frank. I'm not feeling well."There was also the perennial favorite, "Not tonight; I've got a headache."It was clear to me that if I did go the dry spell could continue long after the party was a memory, but I can be just as stubborn and pig headed as Doris and I was going and that was final. We lived in a state where spousal rape was not a crime and I could have just taken what I wanted, but the. Jamal and Meat were both walking with us and talking to Haley still pretending I wasn’t even there.As we got to the elevator to go up to the room, Jamal stopped and said, “Oh shit, I forgot something at the bar.”He looked at me and asked if I could go with him to get it. He also assured me that Meat would get Haley back to the room safely.I foolishly agreed, and the elevator doors closed. Jamal then turned to me and said, “I didn’t actually forget anything at the bar, and don’t be mad. But we. Companions?” a maid from the Red Keep announced herself suddenly.“You would be?” I asked the maid, who blushed as she undressed without waiting for my permission.“Bernadette,” the brunette told me, raising my hackles a bit.I knew exactly who was now that she reminded me. Yeah, she could be trouble, with her loyalty to Cersei and House Lannister. Then again, if I could bring her onto my team, into my camp, that would be extremely useful. She would make an excellent spy and part of my own network.