“You know I’ve had a crush on you for years. You could marry me. It would mean the kid would have two parents. There’d still be a financial stru...gle, but for a much shorter time. Still, I would want two conditions.”“You’d do that for me?” He’d been her best friend. Right now, he was her only friend in the whole world, but this?“I’d do that. The conditions. It would be a real marriage, ‘til death us do part. You could leave me if I abused you or cheated on you, but three years from now, you. After the 10th stroke she gave me an 11th, 12th, 13th it just went on and on until after she had counted to twenty she stopped and laughed at me for innocently believing that she would give me only the 10 strokes she had initially said. Then the whip followed. The first I felt was an exquisite feeling of a whip being run through my balls causing my cock to instantly spring to attention. Blows with the whip then came hard and fast. By now I was really in agony. My mind had gone to a place it had. I couldn’t decide what I liked or didn’t.“You said you want to change the furniture in your study,” Addison reminded me. “They might have nice things in here.”Both Addison and Julia pointed out possibilities. I found something wrong with every choice; too uncomfortable, too dark, too staid.My daughter appeared undisturbed at my truculence. She paused, studied me and asked, “Do you really want to change your study furniture?”“I do. It’s just...” I shrugged.“Okay. Maybe later.”Just like that, she. I realize, now, how complacent we have become! We can be beaten by somebody who will surprise you all. I would like to call to the front, the young Archduke: Jason Kargo. I have known him for all of two days,” said Pleb Chatzke who beckoned to Jason.Philippa pushed Jason to stand and helped him walk up the stairs to the podium, where she stood with Jason helping him to keep upright. There was pandemonium in the hall, as the results of the top nine appeared on the holograms.“Jason Kargo was born.