Roberta quite envied her! But she was pretty well used to pain these days. Which was just as well because a lot of it seemed to be coming her way!"TWE...TY NINE"SHIT, SHIT, FUCKING SHIT! It had been a week after her second flogging that she had been awarded one hundred more lashes for sloppy turnout. Her quiver had been the cause of her downfall on that occasion. Roberta had been allowed to look at herself in a mirror and been forced to admit that it stuck up a smidgeon more than the regulation. “I should have kicked you out when I had the fucking chance!” she huffed.“Look at us,” he said, laughing. She laughed too, and accepted his kisses.“I’m gonna fuck you right here. The question is: do you want me to use a condom?”She grimaced, cursing a blue-streak below her breath. “Do you have one?”“I have six.”“Fuck!” She cursed, laughing. “You obviously thought you’d get lucky tonight. I should have thrown your ass out.” She kissed him hard. “You really brought six?”“I didn’t know if you’d. It sure is going to be boring around here,” Shirley said. After the San Diego battle, things had been real quiet in the office.Mike had six sites that had been monitoring radical Muslims within the states. Communications between individual enclaves had come to a halt. The chatter among supporting Muslims had dropped to nothing. Mike’s teams were now sitting around watching monitors that showed nothing happening. The occasional flashes of activity along the border were routinely investigated by. Tasha laughed softly, “Well...”“Besides that!”“Honestly, I came to spend time with you. I assumed we go to Vespers tonight.”“Yes. We’ll need to give Angie a ride.”“How is she?”“She seems to be doing OK. We’re running together on weekdays, we go to karate together, and I give her rides to church.”“Do you have other friends here?”“My guitar teacher, her boyfriend, and her daughter who I sing with occasionally. My sister and her friends came to visit last weekend, and other friends will visit over.