“I have to go back out,” she said. “Get down on your knees.”I got down on my knees.She gave me a hard slap to the thigh.“Hands and knees, gi...l, do I have to tell you everything?”“No ma'am.”“I've got a nice butt plug for you, and then you are going to crawl around the public area for awhile until the auction.”“The auction?”“I assumed Arlen brought you here to sell you.”“He didn't mention it to me,” I said.“Well. Too bad. You'd go for a big wad.”I didn't know whether to thank her or not, so I. I remember thinking how much we made a mistake and how this child didn’t have the power to prevent his rage. That night, Helena took her life.”Tears rolled down Ginger’s cheeks as she continued. “The Elder Council, and all mermaids within the area, harnessed a storm that nearly leveled Cala de Sirena. We grabbed this evil man and beat him with the same savagery he showed to my daughter. Every mermaid of selection age and older aided in this attack. The Elder Council considered banning any. " Whitney fell in with me and he turned to her. "Just Brian." I go where he goes." She said it flatly. The cop had to look up at her. He thought for a moment."Name?" Whitney Anderson." He looked at his pad again and made a note. Then he shrugged and led on. We went up two floors and he walked us to a room. Mr. Whitaker was in the room with Josh. A nurse was just leaving."Thank God you're here," Mr. Whitaker said. "He wouldn't take any pills until he saw you and he's in pain." Josh, I'm here," I. Above her mons, where her abdomen was flat as a board, her hip bones stretched her skin outward. It didn’t make her look emaciated, though, possibly because her ribs didn’t show above that.His eyes caressed her before he ever touched her physically, sweeping back and forth between her vulva and breasts, then moving to her face, now and then, to see if she was watching him ogle her. She wasn’t. Her eyes were closed. She looked very relaxed.He worked her thighs and skipped to the sides of her.