“It’s essential that we make it clear to any observer, at all times, that you are both submissive to me. To that end, you will be wearing these co...lars, you *will* obey my orders - and you will keep your breasts exposed.”“What?” blurted Laurel angrily.He shocked her. She twitched.“Keep a respectful tone, Laurel,” he told her. “Your leg is broken. You’re in no position to have an argument.”“I’m not your crew member, you son of a bitch!” she hissed, in a low voice. “I’m the Guild representative. Their bodies slammed together, each time eliciting a moan of passion. But Zach kept his composure enough to continue biting and nibbling her neck and ears. She dug her fingers into his shoulders as she came hard against him. ‘Ohhh Zach!’ He wrapped his arms around her waist and stood, lifting her effortlessly. He picked up a towel on his way out and gently laid her down on the bed. Drying off quickly, he looked at her dripping wet body and had trouble controlling himself. He wanted nothing. The battle on which the destiny of the next age is staked now approaches the end. Not a clash of strength or an exchange of blows, the one who ends this will be the one who narrowly escapes with his life--And in the end, the one to decide the age is-- (Both Shishio and Kenshin are hunched over, shaking and out of breath. As Shishio struggles to pull himself together, steam begins to rise from his body.)Aoshi (thinking): Red steam?Houji (thinking): Blood--his blood is boiling! Lord Shishio's. It would never get between her first love, but she now realized a woman could have two deep loves. Only a man like Don with the same deep ties to another could make it work.Don had carried her to his bed, and laying her out had quickly stripped her of every scrap of her clothes. She would have to remember to retrieve them from the floor of his room where he had wildly strewn them.In his stories Don always wrote of long, slow build-ups of mutual passion. In that first coupling he had sensed she.