Bikie drug deals. A last-minute 600 kilometre road trip. A plan to set up an ex-husband.
They're all explanations proffered by a man accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting his landlady, abducting her and driving hundreds of kilometres across the country with her bound and gagged in the boot.
Horrific details of the woman's alleged ordeal emerged in the District Court in Sydney on Thursday, with the court hearing the woman was punched, tied to her bed, whipped, and sexually assaulted.
Her 37-year-old boarder accused of the crimes told the court it was consensual.
The court also heard the woman had her nipples pierced with sewing needles as part of the assaults.
He said that after the couple enjoyed some "rough sex" which included bondage, they decided to go on a road trip together to buy drugs from bikies in Orange, NSW.
It was all part of a plan they "hatched" to discredit her ex-husband by posting illegal drugs to his workplace, he told the District Court in Sydney on Thursday.
The trial has heard the woman invited the man to be her boarder at her Dandenong home in Victoria after they met while volunteering at a religious charity.
The man said he had been living at a "rough" boarding house and was "overjoyed" to live with her and her children in a family environment.
He said he also protected her from her ex-husband, of whom she was frightened.
"She (said) that she liked me. She felt safe around me," the man said.
He told the court he bought the woman "sexy lingerie" and they engaged in a "friends with benefits" relationship, but the woman didn't want anyone to know as she was in the middle of a divorce and that would be "un-Christian".
He denied his gifts were unwelcome or that the woman ever rejected him after telling him their sexual relationship was over in May 2011.
The Crown alleges the man flew into a rage after the woman rejected his advances in July 2011, before he tied her to her bed and attacked her.
He allegedly attacked her again the next morning, before putting her in the boot, driving to Young in southern NSW and putting her in a motel cupboard.
The court has heard the woman managed to escape and alert motel staff, before the man was arrested after crashing the car.
He has pleaded not guilty to six charges, including aggravated sexual assault, indecent assault and detaining with intent to cause actual bodily harm.
He told the court the woman drove with him "in the front seat" from Victoria to Young after she made a last-minute decision to join him on the trip.
The court has heard the man gave a false name at various caravan parks and motels and bought duct tape and cable ties along the way.
The man said the woman got cold feet about the bikie plan and "started acting funny" in the Young motel so he left her to go and meet the bikies himself.
"I still care for her," he told the court.
The trial continues before Judge Helen Murrell.
