" THAT sounds like a perfect subject for an emergency family meeting. Family meetings don't have to follow a schedule or format."With that, Neil drove... up and parked the SUV and trailer. Fred and Anne lassoed him and dragged him over to their mother in the ranger's shack.I don't know what was discussed but from the smiles on everyone's faces it must have been good.Mary/Fran broke the mood. She grabbed Bob's hand and led out at a fast jog up the trail to the Pigmy Forest. We all fell in behind. The next morning, after Helen had sucked him off and licked his penis clean without Derek making the slightest move to give her any sexual satisfaction, he telephoned Hajji Darwish Dosmukhamedov and explained the problem of Helen's lack of a passport.~What is this woman to you?~ asked the elderly Kobekistani."She will be a member of my harem," said Derek, using English to be sure that Helen really understood her position.Helen stared at him.'He really means that, ' she thought, 'a slave in an. I snatched up my toiletry bag and made my way into the bathroom, my panties hitting the floor right outside the door, and then I was distributing perfume, toothpaste and whatever other knick-knacks I needed on the counter around the washing basin, feeling deliciously naughty about my nakedness. I didn’t even close the door, having hung the "do not disturb" at the outside of the entrance door, a little deviant act of freedom in a world controlled by meeting schedules and airline delays. To feel. “Eh, James” I finished her sentence, realising I hadn’t even told her my name. I hadn’t really told her anything. I’d just been listening the whole time. “Sorry about the tea” she said as I left and I looked over my shoulder and smiled “another time perhaps”. It was the kind of automatic answers that grown ups give, but it was autopilot and my mind was reeling like a teenager. She hadn’t even put on the kettle.On the drive home I tried to get out of Simon what the set up at Darrens was. Simon.