Adam's right hand man kept on pestering him to talk about theprogress on Joe Marchibroda's unemployment claim. Marchibroda was inmiddle management, so... to Adam it was no big deal if the company lost thehearing and had to pay him. Also in Pennsylvania, other than for t ablatant reason to be let go, former employees almost always won theunemployment hearing.Adam was getting sick of his subordinate trying to run the meeting."Jeff, you are going to have to learn to take my lead if you want to staymy. . in the end we never did fuck that night. I simply wore you out, left your head spinning between the pain and the pleasure and the teasing and the anticipation and realisation. When I unbuckled you from your cuffs, you collapsed against me, burying your face in my neck, and I carefully carried you to bed. You had given me all you had, indulged my little sadistic streak and been left exhausted. It only seemed right to give something back, so I laid you down across the bed, gripped your wrists. "How bad is that?" When she finds out I have a boyfriend? Probably not so bad..." Carmela ducked her head and blushed a bit. Carmela's mama had been worrying about how long it was taking her to collect a boy for some time, uttering statements like, "In the old country, you would be promised to a man, at least, by now -- but you're not even dating!" One look at Chuck and Mama was going to be thrilled to death..."Oh, well, then..." Chuck pulled Carmela to her feet. "I'll suffer through it.". If he had been on horseback, it would have been an all day trip, at the very least.The land changed from flat to hilly. The road followed the curve of hills, and even went over a few, but mostly the road was cut into the sides of the hills themselves. The change in the land was dramatic to say the least. It was not quite mountainous, but it was very hilly.The condition of the road varied as he traveled north. It was supposed to be maintained and able to support wagons rolling along the north.