"She extracted another portion of body wash from the same bottle and poured it onto a new sponge. "You like it when I hit you there, don't you, my sla...e?" Yes, I love it when you hurt my body, Mistress." Jan said, right after she had asked that question. The soft touch of the sponge on his back that washed away the filth that clung to his back and ass cheeks felt strangely soothing, a lot more so on the slapped ass cheeks. "I'm sorry I called you Laura, Mistress." he whispered, the sound close. I don't think you need to worry about that." No, that isn't what I meant. Now, they accept me, but they might stop wanting me to be their daughter or something, if I did something they really hated for me to do." Why do you think your mother asked me those questions about my money? Brenda said your family was rich." Was rich. Not any more. The last book didn't do very well, and Daddy lost a lot of his money in the foreign exchange trading he was doing. I heard them talking about having to cut. I knocked on her door, anda short time later, I had the whole story. It turns out there was aresearch opening down on one of the Argentinian Antarctic bases, and myparents had been contacted last minute to go replace another group ofresearchers who had backed out. Apparently, all of the logistics andhouse selling had happened in the last couple of days, and my parentshad mailed me a check to cover some living expenses and a letter ofexplanation to my college dorm address. The dorm I just. “Privateers from both our nations sail the seas looking for the opportunity to take from the other.” Queen Athirmi continued. “Our ships war. It’s not an official one, but it still is sanctioned by both myself and the empress. And then there is the matter of the Oracle. The empress has her scaled tail coiled tight around her Serpent Oracle. She is a jealous naga.”“Well, I’m sure I can lose those coils,” I said and gave her a roguish wink.She arched an eyebrow and straightened even more in her.