"Tuck grimaced and Judy wanted to laugh. The people of Xipototec had had a big party the day they heard the war was over. Then they'd had a bigger par...y than any they'd ever had before when they found Tuck was going to be the High King's man responsible for them. It had cemented the relationship between the people and sovereign and the people and Tuck.Everything Judy had learned in school had been dismissive of feudal lords and nobles, their oaths and the like; democracy had been the remedy for. She called him back, he wouldn’t pick up. She fumed. She cussed at her kids, these weights keeping her from freedom, from her “Big Daddy.” She didn’t have the good sense to question her priorities, she just saw the potential hazard of the niece, this new element, that was keeping her from being with Ace, “because my stupid mom won’t be a good grandmother and watch you brats!” she yelled out to them. She groaned and weighed the risk and against her better judgment she texted Ace back. She would. The right eye was swollen shut so badly, Billy couldn’t even tell if he still had it, the broken cheek bone and jaw were so puffy that they distorted the entire contour of his face. Petey’s head was bandaged above his left ear with the hair shaved down, showing mute testimony of having needed many stitches at the very least.Petey’s left arm was in a cast from his hand to his elbow, the brutally discolored fingers poking out feebly from the plaster. A bandage covered his left cheek where it had. .. him ... his cock. I wanted to reach out and yank it from his fingers ... to hold it ... to fondle it. And then his fingers moved ever so slowly -- up and down, up and down. I didn't notice how dry my lips were until my tongue swiped across them.Mesmerized, I sat like a statue -- a statue whose breasts rose and fell with heavy breathing. And then I saw his nod. Like an idiot, I stared blankly at his face. Then another nod. It finally dawned on me. I spread my legs and reached under my skirt,.