And the sex had been monumental, her willingness to experiment with him as limitless as his own. But that was ten years ago. If he had known she would... pack on thirty pounds, gain a belly and let her tits sag down like tired old punching bags he never would have married her. It seemed to happen over night, and Mark had come realize that her commitment to staying beautiful for him was not a priority anymore, especially now that Maddie was here. He busted his ass to stay trim and chiseled, though. "The worm drive actually isn't a drive at all. It doesn't propel us. It merely opens a wormhole in space—the formal name is an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, it's something akin to a black hole—and holds it long enough for us to enter if we're traveling fast enough. The first law of thermodynamics says matter and energy can't be destroyed, so we have to come out somewhere; some very complex math called worm mechanics is used to determine just where we do come out, which can be controlled by the way the. I pick her up with ease and toss her on her stomach while grabbing her wrist. "Your not getting my wrist again. I'm not gonna let you get them behind my back again," she says. "Why not?" I laugh. "What's so bad about me getting your hands behind you?" "Because I can't do anything or get away!" she says through a clenched jaw as she struggles against me. It doesn't take me long before I do get her hands behind her back as she struggles with me sitting over her upper legs just below her butt.. Eventually, your contracts led to the middle of nowhere, far north nearing the border of what used to be Canada. Fat with cash, and no means of travel, the situation wasn't ideal, but wasn't hopeless. You'd just have to survive the winter until an opportunity presented itself in the spring. Until then, you continued building your nest.It's late one night when you return from a contract. The tavern you've decided to take shelter in is old, rumor has it that it even pre-dated launch day. It.