"She turned her head to look as he reached into the bag again. She didn't recognize the two metal devices he pulled out. Not until he reached and and ...ut the first one on her right nipple. The girl squealed with pain as she felt her nipple pinched tight in the jaws of the device. She squealed again and jerked hard when he put the other clamp on her left nipple. The man grabbed a handful of her hair and wrapped his other arm around her shoulders. "Ride it bitch," he snarled in her ear. "Ride. I think she heard you sigh too. Too cute.’ Ada grinned. She looked as pleased with my conversation as I was. Suddenly her grin faded, and she cast her eyes downward. She ducked under the table. Shit, I thought. It hadn’t occurred to me how stiff I got just being next to Cammy. Had Ada seen me when she was under the table? I crossed one leg over the other, attempting to hide my obvious arousal. ‘Well, well…What’s this, Blaine,’ Ada said slyly as I felt a hand brush past my leg. Why the hell. It was the first time I knew how much he cared. Not you. Kyle. The first time I’d been able to leave the room, and I did it with him. It gave me hope. When Kyle stopped coming to the whorehouse, I was lost. It seemed like I could only leave with him. But he went out west to help the Indian girl and I didn’t see him again.”“Shit, Geneive. How long were you out?”“There, months and months, trapped in that whorehouse bedroom. I lost track of time. Here? A few weeks. You remember. You tried to call. Gee’s crew, wanting to be involved, had worked after school cleaning the main path to the Patriarch so it was wide enough to use the ATVs to transport guests from the foresters’ office. The older youth would shuttle guests to the Patriarch and return them after the ceremony.When the final RSVPs had been tallied, thirty-one people would attempt to gather under the canopy of the Patriarch as Judge Warren performed the wedding.Mead was about to leave the office and lock up when his phone rang..