His mind had been agonized, tortured by tens of tens of tens of terrible imaginings, and his belly so twisted with worry that he could hardly force himself to the chore of eating. His every muscle had burned, and his oar-roughened hands had cracked and blistered and bled. When finally he crept from the rowing bench and eased his bones to the deck, he had been so exhausted that he could no longer even move, and then when he woke, he scarcely felt he had rested an instant… yet in that first mindless moment of waking, how his untouched organ stood thick and congested and vein-roped in its need! Really, it was embarrassing, and despite the suffering of his mind, he almost thought to settle his impossible erection in the simplest, most direct way he could. Without even a hint of privacy, howeve
