Miriam and I continued from where we had left off before the deployment to Canada. She was loving, warm and eager, and I thought that I had finally cr...cked it. All it needed now was to arrange some accommodation and a job for her, and then she would be able join me in Aldershot. I had looked at flats for rent in the area, and chosen a couple of suitable ones for her to view. When I next had leave Miriam would arrange to take time off work as well, and then I intended taking her down to. He shocked her again.“Laurel,” he said, “I can do this all day - but I don’t have to. I have work to do on setting up a shelter to save *all* our asses, so if you don’t hurry up and say thank you, I’m just going to tell Rospar to shock you every twenty seconds until you do. And we are not yet, I should note, using anywhere near the most painful setting on that collar.”She attempted defiance a couple of seconds longer - and then submitted. “Thank you for saving me, and splinting my leg,” she. She kicked off her shoes then reached down and stripped offa pair of lycra jogging shorts. Walking out onto the boardwalk in herbikini, she waited for her friends, feeling the approving looks from thepassing men and women. As the last of the girls joined her, she casuallystrolled away, the posse following without a thought.The sun was deliciously warm, the breeze comfortably wafting her mane.The boardwalk wasn't crowded; there were just enough admiring peoplemoving about to make it feel like. She was a little envious of Lea and her marriage to Hank, but found her friend's euphoria infectious. She found herself smiling, and excited to see this mysterious gift.They looked up simultaneously to see the brown-clad delivery man walking into the accounting department through the door on the other side of the room, looking for his deliveree. He was holding something in his arm, but neither Helen nor Lea could see it due to the partitions between the cubicles.He looked out over the room, and.