I won't let it happen again. You have been so good letting mother and dad and I enjoy the kids when you didn't have to. I promise to be more careful."...avid held up his hand and said, "No problem Carol, the kids love the time with you... won't hurt me to wait now and then." but he couldn't look directly at her because of the pain.Carol assumed he was still disgusted with her and dropped her eyes to the floor, finding it difficult to meet his eyes even after this long. Jeannie got up and walked. He placedthem in his ears and immediately started hearing '50s pop music playingthrough it. At first he just listened to it, his fingers tapping on thearm-rest, but as it played, Evan began to feel more at ease."Just put your signature here." Ellie handed Evan her tablet. "It's astandard form, everyone had to sign it, even your wife."Which was true, because as Evan sat with the tablet, Marie did the samething in her spot. Of course she read it, but it was truly a standardform, just removing any. At first, when I opened the door Monique wasn't too shocked, then she saw Jim and I could see her body visibly tense. "Holy shit!" I had to smile. I loved Jim's reactions, he was more surprised than I could have expected. "This is my cock whore Monique." "You're keeping her collared?" "Yeah, what do you expect, they're my slaves." I grabbed Emily and pulled her close. "I'm waiting to put a collar on this one till after I fuck her." "Holy shit." "Tell my buddy what you're doing Monique." I could. How could he be? His mother had been kidnapped bythose crazy, heavily armed, strangers who had taken over and rebuilt theold drug cartel compound. The man who would have become his step fatherwas killed trying to rescue her. As bad as that was for him personally,it was made worse by the fact that his mother had been the healer for hisvillage and his would be stepfather was the water worker for anothernearby village. Each was known as the heart of their village, a symbol asmuch as a person..