‘Yo dawg…what’s up?’ Sybil said. ‘Where are you?’ Lydia asked. ‘We’re heading to Biddington, I’m craving junk food, and thinking of ...ish and chips wanna come?’ ‘You forget I have a child.’ Lydia said, ‘Hey, why don’t you come here instead, I’ve got four bottles of Larry’s homemade wine and I sure could use the company.’ ‘I’m famished though.’ Sybil said. ‘I’ve got stuff here, I’ll feed you…I hardly ever ask you for anything, stop being such a tight ass.’ Lydia said ‘We’ll be there straight. Granny Mary would spank Sarah even then if she earned it even though she was in her mid-twenties. Granny Mary always argued that adults should be punished when they earn it and a spanking was a good family punishment to give.Granny Mary had got used to having to deal with Sarah when she broke rules. Like the time Sarah was twenty-one-years-old and was spending time at the Hotel her then seventy-year-old Granny Mary owned and managed and she swam naked in the pool which shocked quite a few of. After five weeks on station the three Scots ships had encountered only a handful of longships. Tara had shown her abilities as a captain during the first chase. She seemed almost to be able to read the wind, finding every advantageous gust, and her sea-wolf soon outstripped Gabrain and Lachlan.The fact that her ship wasted no time in firing a broadside to hole and sink the Dane, also showed she had the nerve for the task at hand. From that point onward Lachlan and Gabrain stopped worrying that. I dreamed that my heart would pummel forever louder and faster in my chest, maintaining a menacing tempo to my desire, as if by beating all the louder it would somehow drown out the rising tide of illicit desire rising within the essence of my being. When I closed my eyes and thought of these things, the world and its ills simply slid away. No more doubt or fear, no more worry or pain. In its place was that most coveted thing of all: oblivion. A significant proportion of my life was spent as.