"One thousand even," I said. "Done," she said, turning back over onto her belly and shutting her eyes as if dropping a thousand dollars on a massage a...nd fuck was as relaxing to her as a deep dreamless sleep. The towel had fallen to the floor and, though I knew it would come off again, I felt the need to replace it, to create normalcy. I started my work on her first without oil, my fingers digging into her back, working out knots and softening tissue with some trepidation. I had touched. ? She loopedanother rope between my wrists and pushed the rope underneath my sore stomachand back around the body, tying the rope to itself to fasten the wrists to mywaist.? As if I needed her to remind meof my helplessness, she grabbed my legs and twisted them like a pretzel to showher total control. Sittingon my wrists she pulled my gym shorts and underwear off my torso, leaving mybottom half exposed.locking her legs around mine just above the knees sheendlessly coiled rope above and below my. I studied her face for a moment, She stared at me with those eyes, the deep blue color swallowing me whole like drowning in an ocean."you came here to tell me not to see Amber?" I askedShe barely nodded and looked back towards her knees "I just-" She paused saying the next words carefully "dont want you to fuck her" She said hitting the last two words like Ice. I laughed lightly "I wasn't planning on it.-at least not yet-Im going over there to meet her parents" I told her. She looked up at me. ”They didn’t know it, but I had stepped out of the cave right behind them. I was ragged, rail thin, with a six week old beard and hair in tangles. My hat was long gone. Zeke saw me and his eyes widened slightly before he grinned. I grinned back, right after I threw the hammer back on my shotgun. Texas looked behind and almost fainted.“That ain’t necessarily how it happened brother. These assholes tried to jump the claim. They killed Eion, Elsa, and I don’t know what happened to Gal. They put up.