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CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
The cold front moved overhead in the early morning hours. The sky rumbled as lightning danced in the thick, dark clouds. Eddie was dragged from the recurring nightmare by a loud crack that shook the house.“ That sounded close,” Eddie said as Sam looked out the window.“ It got my favorite oak!” she cried with her forehead pressed to the cold pane. Tanya joined her at the water streaked window. Three large limbs and a section of the base laid on the ground. The huge tree smoldered until the rain dampened the wide, split trunk. Remnants of a cedar bench stuck out from the sides of one of the limbs.“ Thanksgiving is next week,” Tanya said, hoping to cheer Sam.“ I have a room where we can entertain the whole family,” Sam turned from the window.“ No. You are giving the staff a four day weekend and you are going to help me prepare dinner.”“ You can’ t be serious. I can’ t cook,” Sam said.“ If you eat, you have to know how to cook,” Eddie said from the bed.“ From the time I hit puberty, I never had to cook,” Sam said striking a pose in the soft light coming through the window.“ Have you ever tried to cook?” Tanya asked.“ Once. But I didn’ t know how long to boil eggs. No one told me there was something explosive inside,” she answered seriously. Tanya smiled and held her laughter.“ I can’ t believe you did not know one of the basic ingredients for gunpowder is found in eggs,” Eddie said, donning his best poker face.“ Why didn’ t anyone tell me?”
Eddie was having a difficult time keeping a straight face, observing the seriousness with which the question was posed.“ Eddie. Stop it,” Tanya admonished.“ You are so mean,” Sam said jumping on the bed and hitting him with a pillow. She was surprised when he swung back, catching her totally off guard and almost knocking her off the bed.“ Stop children,” Tanya stated sternly, before it got out of hand.“ Kiss and make up. Tell her you’ re sorry Eddie,” Tanya said climbing onto the bed and giving them a look that asked,“ What are you waiting for?” Sam wondered how Tanya could have put up with Eddie all these years, until she realized he had brought out the child in her easily. Eddie was a fountain of youth and she had to control how often she tapped that well. She kissed him deeply.“ I’ m sorry,” he said. Tanya leaned over to give him a kiss and Sam held his hands over his head.“ Keep kissing him. It’ s really erotic when your natural response is negated. Ever done it with your hands tied Eddie?” Sam said. He mumbled beneath Tanya’ s lips.“ That sounded like a no. I thought not. Someone as macho as you could never give up control in a sexual situation,” Sam said. Tanya stopped kissing him.“ I suppose you have allowed yourself to be tied?” Eddie asked.“ It was the most intense orgasm I have ever experienced... The first time. After that it was not nearly as stimulating.”
This was a conversation that held Tanya’ s interest. She and Eddie had joked about sex play of this nature but never went as far as investigating the possibilities. Sam had been around some pretty wild people. Some of the conversations they shared were about some of the women who danced at the club. The most interesting bunch were the ones referred to as“ Short timers”. Women who, George figured, would get him closed down in a hurry. A number of them had approached Sam and tried to become“ special” in her life. In doing so they tended to share some intimate and sometimes strange details. Tanya was not a prude, but some of the fetishes she discovered in her extensive reading were not anything in which she was interested. Hearing about real people who were into particularly kinky matter was a source of information. Reading about people who liked to be urinated upon and talking to someone who had actually met