She screamed and cried out for her mum to help her as the cane bit into her tender flesh. Melissa had thrown back her head and stamped her feet, beggi...g Miss Michaels to stop as the cane struck her palms.Miss Michaels told Melissa to stop acting like a child and take her punishment as a senior should. It had been the severest thrashing Mike ever witnessed.Mike thought to himself that Melissa had not been so brave now she experienced what a caning entailed. When her thrashing finished she'd been. What do you want?" The same thing I've always wanted." She turned to the guards. "Take the others to the Khora. Take this one, their leader, to the place I showed you. I want him separated from the others. They won't be able to plan as well without his input."Patrick stopped his snort before it came out. Any of the girls were perfectly competent to plan an entire war without him. The Empress was actually making a mistake; in some ways, he was the girls' conscience. Without him putting a damper. "After supper that night, Mark Compton, the father of the two girls and their two older brothers got up to answer the phone. After ten minutes, he yelled out, "Piper, Kimberley. Come here!"Only Kimberley was able to come. She had been watching television and Piper was out exercising on her bike and unable to hear the call.Mark yelled at his older daughter, "What happened at school today?" Nancy — " a slap stung her face and then another one.Mark was furious, "Three girls were hurt and it was. "Yes, I doubt he would trust anyone local to do that kind of work again. It would be too risky, if they got picked up. His people have family who can be used as a threat, to keep them from talking to the police." he said. "The one the police have is going to talk eventually. They must have been in a panic or still thought that you were just amateur blackmailers. Possibly their intel isn't very good." To them I am a female TV actress how hard could it be to hit me?" I asked. "But we aren't the.