For the most part, at least."Well, well, well ... would you look at this? We have ourselves a bonafide hero on our hands. Though not much of one by th...e look of him." I heard a deep voice with an accent say mockingly. English from the Caribbean, maybe with a hint of French. Two others started laughing in response – another man and a woman. "I guess that he could provide at least a bit of added entertainment and a second course."Ouch. That ... kinda stung.I freely admit that I am far from the. Like clockwork. He smiled again. Looking through the rear windshield he saw them. The Corvette pulled into one stall, the small Miata in the other. There were four of them today."Why didn't I marry one like that?" He mused as he feasted his eyes on the blond getting out of the car. Shear perfection. He felt the stirring in his baggy trousers. She was a vision. The kind of girl he always fantasized about but would never have had the nerve to hit on when he was single.Her tan foot exited the. . I... please, may we not go back and join the others?" she stammered hesitantly in her perfect French.Leduc's smile broadened as he observed this new consternation draining the color from her entrancing face. It pleased him that she dreaded what was to come, yet knew she must submit like a common slave. Earlier, he had feared that she was looking forward to their little tete- a-tete, and he felt disappointed inasmuch as her desire would deprive him of forcing his will upon her, but now he. I turned and ducked back into the remnants of the buildings that surrounded a slightly taller structure I took to be covering the mine entrance. Straining my eyes, I could see shadowy figures moving towards me. No flashlights were waving, no sign of light beyond the two remaining floodlights and the burning wreckage of my car. I wondered if the insurance company would pay for it?As a couple of figures closed on my location, I slid around the corner of a building. I don't know who was more.