I was expendable if anything went wrong. I was to be Kelly's fool, her patsy, the scapegoat, chump, dupe, sucker, the fall guy. I think you get the id...a. Man, I was hot under the collar. I was going to call the scheming bitch and tell her to forget it. I had better things to do.Then I got to thinking about the better things I had to do. The only thing I had planned for the weekend was to get together with some buddies, drink beer and watch a Three Stooges marathon. I do that sort of thing all. She closes her eyes and waits for the end, her breath shakingand making her exposed body quiver. The tenderness of his touch surprises her. He kisses her lips so softly thatshe barely notices the physical contact but deep inside her something responds.Her fear vanishes and she realises that this is what she wants with this man.She is aware that he has some power over her that has induced her acquiescence,but at the same time she believes that she wants to beunder his power. She begins to. I leaned against the tree across from the bar, trying to control my breathing when I saw Him striding toward me. Instinctively I moved to the back of the tree in the shadows where we would be less likely to be seen. He was calm as always, but I felt the tension in him and when he grasped my hair and shoved my head into the tree I melted. His mouth was gentle and then he bit my lips and the sound he made rippled through me. He backed up slightly and slapped me, again and again, then lifted. If he can escape, he can go free. If hestays, he cannot remain as he is. You know that as well as I do." I wish he could escape." And you wish that you could go with him." The girl looked up, andMerida shook her head. "You know what happens to any that leave theisland after as long as you have been here. All of that time crashesdown in an instant. You won't turn to dust. You haven't been here longenough. But you were what sixty when you arrived? After all of this timeyou would be over 160 years.