Initially she was given a huge enema of cold water mixed with crushed ice. A stopper was used to prevent her from voiding the chilling liquid that soo... had her teeth chattering as waves of cramps surged through her lower intestines. "Damn! That little social climber looks like she's five months gone. Let me at her!" The speaker wasted no time mounting her as she sprawled on the tiled floor fighting the agonizing cramps that continued to ripple through her body. She grunted from the pain. Spending nearly half of your life sneaking, peeking and ducking gives you a (perhaps exaggerated) interest in privacy. With some carefully-sited video cameras, motion detecting LED floods and a good alarm system, my castle was as secure as I could make it without a moat and a pet dragon. I’d briefly considered dogs instead of the dragon, but I’m not really a dog person. They’re too noisy.All of that pretty much wiped my savings, so I had to find work. I picked up a job as an instructor for a. I checked with the McKesson financial people to see how things were going. I was surprised by some of the developments there.The flight suit technology had taken off in a big way as recreation. I was getting rich on the sales of the Skye Suits, as they were called. What was interesting was the direction my investors had taken with the percentage of those profits they were allowed to dabble with. I was now the majority owner of more than two dozen Skye Parks, open park like areas with gravity. It seemed a cruel fate, but it was not undeserved after what he had done.“Good morning, Mister West,” Ethan replied. He hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should risk pushing his luck, but he couldn’t relax until he was certain. “I see that the main desk is empty,” he added, “I don’t suppose you’ve seen Mister Spencer around today?”“Mister Spencer?” West asked, confused. “Is that a new hiree, Sir? Nobody has manned the main desk as long as I’ve worked here. There’s not much use for a.