I have to admire her ingenuity. Even the electronically synthesized voice she uses to reply sounds masculine.“Melena - I can paralyze you completely...and drag you along to the Slaver ship like I did before,” the male voice says, “but it will be more pleasant for both of us if you agree to co-operate and walk on your feet. For if you’re numbed and you arrive soiled, the first thing they’ll do is wash you.”Not wanting to be stripped and interfered with, I comply, indicating this with a nod. The. “Coffee’s ready over there. Cooked breakfast?”“Yes please.” Kiss.“Fried, scrambled or poached?”“Fried please.”“Good ‘cause that’s what I want too. Payment in advance though. Kiss please!”He paid immediately, protractedly but very lovingly.“Love you,” she whispered and then went to do the cooking. Terry helped them both to coffee.“Any plans for the weekend?” Grace asked as she put two plates on the table and sat down.“Sunday lunch for both of us at Mum and Dad’s, a bit of hard graft on the books. Our rooms, set up high, enabled the breeze to gather us up and take in the sights of Ocean sands and open fields to the foot of the inescapable Thai mountains to the south. Cal and I sat relaxing on the Balcony. It was Wednesday and with the weekend and my departure fast approaching I needed to turn things up a bit. Added to which Cal was upbeat today. He said that last night he had called back home to find the stock market at 7 year highs since the Global Financial Crisis had rocked his. "You know she never told me that?" he said. "I could never work out why she hated the band so much, or come to that why Zak hated me so much."If she'd said she'd caught him with another woman I would have understood a lot. I certainly wouldn't have gone on the tour knowing he was around. I can't understand why she didn't tell me." Guilt." Cheryl surprised him, and it showed. "Ged, when you first met her, how did you feel?" She was simply the most wonderfully beautiful woman I'd ever met. She.