I wasn’t as precise packing our gear into the SUV as I had been when we left the house the day before and I must admit to breaking the speed limits ... lot when I was flying around the curving roads from the Shafer-Butte campground and onto Bogus Basin Road trying to arrive at St. Luke’s before the twins. Deb kept her cool and called the doctor from the car in spite of my efforts to scare her to death with my driving.But arrive I did, and Deb was rolled into the birthing center with several hours. “Is he nice and smooth like you?” Tom asked. His breathing was erratic, also.Penny nodded convulsively. “I’ll take care of that, myself. Both of you, Tom. And you and Edward can care for me. We’ll all be nice and silky smooth, just like three new-born babes. We’ll all be perfect to go down on orally, too.” A shudder ran through her as Tom lodged his entire shaft inside her taut bottom. She hadn’t taken him since Saturday night, and was tight as a borehole now. He seemed about to explode.“I want. Now about the recording devices, they will be returned at the end of the project, and for those of you who wish photos or such, they will be provided. Kari herself is a talented photographer and I think you will be quite pleased with her work. Now if you will each step forward, give Kari your names, she will tell you which room you have been given, give you the research handbook, which will also include a list of what activities have been planned as well as what amenities the lodge is equipped. Clegg admired the precision with which Connie carried out her work. It was hard to imagine how the stripes could be more evenly spaced, more precisely parallel or how the welts could be more equally raw.After the fifth stroke she stopped. The girl was sobbing, her head bowed, sweating with the strain of hanging from her shackles and the beating. Connie picked up the spiked wheel from a side table arrayed with a surprising array of steel implements that looked as though they were surgical.