We kicked off our shoes and headed to the basement door. The music was obviously loud enough to cover any noise our barefoot steps or movements might ...ake. Clever. When we entered the finished basement the scene was pretty much what my wife had expected.Standing in the middle of the room, facing us was Rick. He was naked and hard. His wrists were through the end loops in two ropes attached to a beam in the ceiling. He was not tied, but the rope was strong enough to hold him if he was. It. So it had all been a dream, even the airplane crashing. I pulled my seat back upright and sat there glumly stunned. The woman in the seat next to me looked at me kindly.“You were having a pleasant dream?” she asked.I nodded my head.“It wasn’t all pleasant, Señora, but I wish it had been real. I was back in 1877, and you and I were lovers,” I blurted.Her smile turned into that smoldering Lopez look, and she gripped my hand tightly.“Is that what you truly wish, Hombre, to give up all the modern. But if I did it, it didn’t seem so bad. With Val it was different. She was conflicted. She tried to talk us all out of doing anything at all. She’d have sent those guys packing from the get-go. But inside she wanted to see what things were like just as much as Tawny did. She got to the point where she decided that, if it was going to happen, the only guy she was willing to let it happen with was me. And Rudy.”“So she didn’t actually consent,” he said.“It wasn’t like that,” I insisted. “She kept. His life didn’t flash his eyes as most people think it would, but he just thought about his Aunt and his Uncle and how happy they were when they realised he survived the car crash ten years ago. You see, Matts parents were in a car crash when he was eight years old. He watched his parents die, slowly and painfully from their injuries. Luckily it didn’t scar him or leave any mental impact, not that he didn’t love them, he had his Aunt Katie and his Uncle James to help him through the loss. As he.