.."David and Laura stared in each other's eyes for a moment, and then they both burst out laughing at the joke, their voices echoing softly against th... gentle sound of the surf. David sighed, kissed Laura and smiled. "We made a tremendous, tremendous amount of progress in the last week." Yes, we augment each other. The theoretical advances are huge. I have a much better understanding of what we're dealing with now." Laura, your grasp of combining theory with lab engineering is fabulous. I'm. She stopped and turned."Next Thursday, you fuck me for 12 minutes."And so it went.- - - 4 Months Ago - - -"Steve? You ok?"It was my dad on the phone. He just told me Mom had pancreatic cancer. That shit is inoperable. Incurable."Yeah, Dad. Just, processing"Mom and Dad had been together since they were 16. I don't know if they ever spent a night apart. Their love was something you don't see every day, especially these days. Hey, they weren't perfect or anything, Mom could be quite the bitch. Executive secretaries are considered to be on duty 24/7/365.2. Dress code applies whenever secretary is on duty.3. Each secretary reports directly to one executive.4. Secretary must address that executive as Master or Mistress as appropriate.5. Secretary will address other executives as Sir or Madam as appropriate.6. Secretary's Master or Mistress will determine the name that the secretary will be called.7. When in the presence of Master or Mistress, secretary will kneel at. They were both of her and Toby. In the first Victoria was giving him one of her world-lighting smiles and their faces were within inches of each other. The second was of her kissing him. The letter, typed, said "I have more such intimate photographs which I will send you in the next few days."Victoria recognised the photographs immediately. It was of her smiling at Toby after he had stitched Patch up and told her that all would be well and then her giving him a grateful kiss. She could not.