“I haven’t done anything like this in over a year.”I squeezed her tighter into my side and said, “Betty, it’s my pleasure. You deserve to ha...e some fun after all that bastard put you through.””Thanks, ” she said with a tear in her voice. ”He hasn't done much with me over the last few years. I have felt so alone. I think I would have gone crazy without you guys to lean on, especially you.”Hugging her tightly I assured her, ”I’ll always be there for you, you know that.”“Do you know how long it’s. “I’m honored by the offer and I’m very pleased to accept, my lord. I will die for you, if necessary. I swear to you ... I belong to you forever now. So, this would be a global security bureau or something of that sort? It would have operations and cells or teams or field offices in every part of the world? Am I correct in saying this?” Laura asked me, truly tickled pink at both the new honor and the way that my hands roamed all over her silky flesh.“Indeed. I trust you to help organize this. Steve, wait ... please, my ... my rings?" she cried out in anguish."Come and find out," I yelled back. I walked out the broken door and laid the rings down on the sidewalk. A small group of people were milling around, curious I suppose, with what was going on. They watched as I gathered my rage into one powerful swing."Steve, NOOOO!" I heard Cora scream as I raised the hammer above my head then brought it down with all my strength, smashing the rings and sending shards of the cement below. Those nobodies still not doing shit. If only they could see him now! He was in fucking CHINA!四His university was on the city’s satellite outskirts, Beijing’s never-ending, expansive edge. The campus in what used to be a farming community that was becoming urbanized, developed. Along the roads were tiny lots growing vegetables and ramshackle tin houses and restaurants, small groceries, street side vendors and boxy crumbling concrete buildings.On nearly every street were newly built mobile phone.