As soon as I understood what he wanted, Ihurried to comply. I sat up and removed my blouse swiftly. My eyes never leftthe baton.? Moments later I was ...akedabove the waist. I have small breasts. I hoped they would please him. I fearedhe might seize one of them in his hand and press the baton to my nipple. If hedid that, I thought my heart might stop. And the last thing I would hear inthis world would be the sound of my scream, and the last I would smell would bemy own burned flesh Much to my. "Go and change if you want to go out, Gina."Dan released her and she stood there defiantly for a moment before stamping her foot and shouting "Swine!" at Dan. Then she fled upstairs to her room."Well done, Dan" said James and followed Gina upstairs. He knocked on Gina's door."Go away!" Don't speak to me like that, Gina."There was silence.James knocked again: still silence."Very well," said James, "if you're going to behave like a child I'll treat you like a child. You're to stay in your room. . but that was in the future. Hell, I could easily create a mine or a grenade with a little technological fusion here. Imagine shooting something the size of a filbert out of a sling shot that, when it landed, made a hole that would hide a quarry-sized dump truck. It wasn't just theoretical, either. I could visualize the steps to make them.I used a small pocket-full of change to make a wrist band that would protect me from falls, blows or projectiles. Likewise I made a thumb ring supporting a. “I just said, ‘Those bums!’ Supposedly, my trip over to Germany this morning was a spur-of-the-moment thing. It’s pretty obvious that I was set up. You don’t organize a 60,000-man parade in two hours! Then she smiled and added, “Katrina, I ask you. If you can’t trust your secretary, who can you trust? It’s obvious from my clothes and stuff that my secretary was in on the deal. Wait till I get her alone!”Katrina had been looking at Kelly with increasing puzzlement. “But Kelly, I don’t.