At the very least, I should accept the first alternative." She paused. "Unfortunately, I still have student loans to pay off." Those student loans are... fortunate for me, Melissa," I said with a smile. "I am looking forward to this. I could give you your punishment now, but I have not purchased a paddle yet, and I do not want anyone to hear what is happening in here. You will be expected to be here at 10:00 am Saturday. You better not be a minute late." I won't be, Mr. Evans," my embarrassed. I know I'm pretty liberal, but I didn't know too many women who had slept with old boyfriends of mine.If I had loved Andrew, I probably would have been upset staying so close to me. As it was, I just wasn't interested. I was subtle when I made that clear. After that we moved on to a good nights sleep. I heard her stirring at 5AM. "Mel go back to bed honey. It's too early to stir around inside a tin can." I said to her."It's just normally the time I awaken to fix breakfast," She said."Force. "Let me be blunt about this" John said, "I tricked her into doing what she is doing. She did it at first because she loves you and she thought she was saving your job. After the first time I blackmailed her into the rest of it. There isn't anyway she can get out of it until all her family are dead and buried and I hope to be retired by then. In short I own her." You own her?" That's what I said. I'll give you the short version; if you want anymore detail you'll have to get it from Karen. It. There’s two of us here. That’s not a chain of command, that’s…” Rhys waved his hand vaguely looking for a metaphor but not finding one “…nothing.”“Even if true, that doesn’t obligate me to get involved.” Cait said incredulously.“I’m just saying if you wanted to, it wouldn’t affect the job.”“Firstly I disagree, and secondly I don’t want to.”“Really?”“Is that so hard to believe?”“Come on, four months in space, just the two of us working together, bored out of our minds. You don’t get.