I made her stand there like that, arms locked around my waist, gaze fixed on mine, while I delivered nine more slaps to her behind, sometimes left-han...ed, sometimes right but each one hard enough to echo through the alley. And each one jerking her loins against mine. She must have been determined to stay silent because, aside from an inadvertent grunt after each blow—Unh!”—she made no sound. When, after the final blow, I disengaged her hands from behind my back she must have thought that we. It’s likely one of his customers dropped it in his banjo case, or he found it on his daily trek down Bourbon for lost items.“There we go,” he says, holding it up. The charm gleams in the sun, outshining the golden chain carrying it. “Lean forward and I’ll do the clasp.”I turn and hold up my hair, letting him put the chain around my neck. I hear a click and the charm hits my sternum, just above the upper curves of my breasts. It’s warm from his hands, and comforts me. I think I’ll carry a piece. But I had never seen anything like what Mom was watching. This one had to be new or they kept it will hidden. I did wonder why we had never seen this one.I stood there watching Mom and the TV, as the scene would change to another woman with just two men, and then four, then five or six. At the time I had no idea what gangbangs were, but now I realize my mother sure knew and she really enjoyed watching them.I was really turned on standing there just behind Mom watching her screwing herself so. Was that fair? Well, they knew the law and, if they were worthy, the new political system was flexible enough to allow the cream to rise and the dross to sink, given time and a reasonable amount of effort.Within a terran-year of the launch of the New Empire, every single system had surrendered with barely a couple of hundred planets or moons that held out under siege by a few madmen who couldn’t accept what was happening, while most of the resistance was by true republics who did not want to.