I like being taken care of. On the one hand, it’s like I’m helpless and you’re choosing to pleasure me. It’s all in your hands.” We laughed ...and I said, “As it were. But it’s also like you’re doing anything I want. So it’s…”“Master and servant…and mistress and her servant.”“Kind of. A bit. Not totally. But for me, now, here, it’s simply I like you and you’re enjoying giving me pleasure.”“Yes, that’s true. Play with your friends.”I caressed her breasts so that they no longer swung beguilingly. Want to go for a swim?” “I’d love to.” We get up and Nancy closes her robe and goes outside. When she comes back with my back in her hand she throws it at me and says, “Your reward.” She disappears upstairs. I put on the clothes and wait for her to come down. She’s still wearing the robe but is also wearing flip-flops and is carrying a bag. I follow her outside and through the garden. Beyond the iron gate we go two houses to the left and she opens a solid garden door. This garden is a lawn. I pull my gun from the holster and place it to the back of his flooded neck. He gives a deep laugh, ‘you are my partner. I know your strengths and your weaknesses.’ I’m on the ground before I realized he moved. He has his gun pointed at my face. Even with the steel facing me, my attention is on the body unmoving on the ground. He turns his back to me unzipping his pants fly. ‘Just let me do my business, and then we can go.’ He has been violent with women before, but never this far. I hold my. After dinner we went for a stroll along the Promenade Deck and stopped to enjoy the moon sparkling off the water and the soft sounds of the ship making its way through the waves. We strode along the deck, leaning against each other in the soft tropical night, speaking little, feeling much. We spent time over dinner talking about her previous marriage and the high and low points of her life. Once she started talking it was as if an internal damn had opened, its flood gates and her history and.