Cathleen and Sunny had identified the conference as a prime opportunity to fill colony requests for birthing assistants, and they intended to siphon o...f a share for their own colony’s needs. They were there to cherry pick and select prior to the larger extraction coming down.In a major error in judgment, Queen Lestrange and her sycophants infiltrated the conference. She hadn’t anticipated an extraction, she was planning a kidnapping - actually, multiple kidnappings.Somehow, Lestrange had. And during those couple weeks I spent as little time as possible at home, not wanting to deal with the whole scene.So here I was, headed home, finally having to deal with the situation. I got in late the first night and after dropping my things in my old room, I found a note from Mom saying that she would probably be out late. I was glad she was out, maybe she'd started working on a new life while I was gone and wasn't just moping around the house. Maybe things would be better than I thought. I. ." started Michael, feeling suddenly reticent."I think you were imagining feeling it across your arse, am I right?" asked Lorna, with a slightly strange look in her eyes."No, no, I wasn't," replied Michael, not very convincingly."Do you like having your bottom whipped, Michael?" asked Lorna, who now certainly had a strange look in her eyes."No, no, I have never.." replied Michael, who had suddenly become tongue-tied."But you would like to?" said Lorna, more as a statement than a question.Right. Walking to her car in her cut up shirt and shorts, she was texting her mom when she bumped into someone. "Watch where you're going asshole." She said, not even turning to face the guy she had run into. "Sorry." The man, Ryan, said. But he didn't mean it, he despised Emily. He considered her the biggest bitch in the school, and that was saying something. He hated the fact that she thought the world revolved around her, how she would use her good looks to get help from people like him, how she.