“Doctor ... uhh, I don’t even know your name.”“Dr. Jack Wilson,” Jack said, “but friends of John can call me Jack.”“Jack, back at his ...ouse ... while I was eating and he was explaining the rules ... I kept looking because I have never seen anyone with eyes so sad before.“What happened, Jack? What made him so sad?”“Did John explain that he will never lie to you,” John replied, “but sometimes he will only give you the short answer, saving the longer version for later?”Megan nodded.“Well, the. , all looking out through giant picture windows at the Lake Ontario shoreline. And I included a secret, something the girls never learned about. I used the most high tech electronics available to wire the area, six cameras and microphones monitoring every move the residents made. I also built in a secret passage, a passage which allowed me to stand just feet from my daughters, able to watch them through specially designed mirrors. Oh, at the time I easily justified it to myself; I was just. The Man had been right about him. He had jacked off many times imagining being restrained and helpless just like this, and feeling the sting of a whip on his young, tightly muscled, and delightfully smooth body. He could not believe that he was about to experience the reality. He could no longer deny to himself that he wanted to feel it, but he wondered whether he would be able to take it. His apprehension increased as the Man's arm rose. But instead of the expected pain, Zach felt the strands. Mike Swanson stood facing up the aisle, waiting for Maggie to enter, on Sean's arm. Just as Mike felt he could wait no longer, his bride and her son entered, and started down the aisle. He stared at this woman, with whom he would spend the rest of his life, and wondered at the past nine months, since that apocalyptic week-end in Atlanta.His life since then, had moved in a direction that he had hoped it would go, with Lois. His only contact with her, since she had moved out, so precipitously,.