Someone was stretching my ass cheeks apart and inspecting my rear end.Then I felt a finger fingering my love hole.“Well, you wants some after I’m,...done,” The nice one said, while fingering my asshole.I looked up at Zed, he looked interested too.My ass got slapped, so hard I squealed out and feel heavily to the ground.I rolled over on to my back and looked up at them.“Would you look at that, the fag has a hard cock,” Zed said.“She must want dick so much, that she got a hardon,” the nice one. How Eugene had introduced her to Ai-lara, and how her negligence got Ai-lara killed."It's not your fault, you know," said Kevin. "You were just a seven year old kid. You didn't know better."A tear trickled Amanda's cheek. "That's what I keep telling myself, but it's just not true. Even at seven I knew the seriousness of life and death. Of all Ai-lara told me, the warning against power tools was the only one involving life and death. I should have put special emphasis on that part, not just. It would have been fine if it had just been him or maybe one or two other people.“So, how are the kittens?” Brook asked.My brain had to reset. I turned to her and smiled. I expect I caught everyone by surprise when I kissed her. She’d just saved me from myself. I guess that’s what girlfriends are for.Everyone was now signed up for the PreCheck line through TSA at the airport. When we got back to the hotel, the street party had broken up. It looked like people needed to get home on a Wednesday. "Mike, I can't tell you what's going on, but if anything happens that keeps me from running this place, I want you and Grace to take it over like you did when I went off the deep end last year. No questions now, please." Okay, Sam."We entered the briefing room to find Beth, Amber, Mattie, Jennie, the Geek, and several other field operators waiting."Okay. Briefly this is what's going on. At seven-thirty this morning there will be a meeting at the shack. Present, if all goes well, will be four.