We started sharing a lot of time together and we got to know her very well and she told us a brief history of her life. She had endured a restrictive ...arriage with a domineering husband of the "old school".Her husband had been a strict religious man with no compassion or imagination when it came to personal relationships and, in particular, sex. She had never enjoyed sex with her husband; there was no pleasure, only a duty to be done and tears to shed. Probably, fortunately, during the marriage. ." I trailed off gesturing at the mess on the floor."Don't be silly just sit down I'll clean it," he offered steering me to the sofa, I sat down and he cleaned the floor.We chatted as he did so and I started to feel my mood turning, and I could feel myself smiling a bit he even made me laugh at one point. I had always liked Brandon, he had always been nice to me. He had been Tom's friend for years and so I knew him quite well. I even knew he had had a crush on me a few years ago, he had been. I nod, and reply to his previous remark. "Thank you, on behalf of the firm." Mmmm," Andrew gives a nod of acknowledgement. "Well, you might be able to help or not. If not, you might be able to point me in the right direction."Point me in the right direction. This is the only vaguely submissive thing Andrew has said so far."Philippa and I have bought a plantation in Leicestershire. It's quite large – about five square miles. There's three things I plan to do with it. (His plans? What about. " Abby stammered, "but I've never, never EVER done anything like that before." "What, kissed a guy you barely know, or kissed a black man?"And before she could stop herself, she started to echo her ex husband, "Kissed a ni... a black man." She blushed at what she'd almost said, looked up, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that, I don't use that word, really. I don't know where that came from."Jake nodded knowingly. "Oh, I do, and don't be too worried about it. You probably grew up around folks.