How appropriate! It was actually being used to camouflage pool machinery. As Andy walked by I acted on impulse. I reached a hand over Andy's mouth and...another around her waist and dragged her behind the house. I chanced a look toward where Blackbeard would come out. He was probably still behind the bushes silently cursing his luck because I didn't see or hear him as I ducked out of sight with his lost prize.Andy was doing a good bit of struggling and I wanted to subdue her before Blackbeard. One was the guy that had bought number one Maria, and the other was the guy that had lost out to me bidding on Claudia. They kept bidding each other up, going above two hundred thousand. Eventually, the guy who had bought Maria bid two hundred and sixty thousand, and the other guy finally folded.It was an awful lot of money for a ‘seconds’ sale, but perhaps understandable as it was pretty rare to see twins up for sale. It made me wonder how much they had sold for as eighteen-year-old ‘pure’. " No, really." Yes. Really."Madison pulled her head back. Sawyer's expression was completely earnest."Didn't you ever wonder why I developed the control sphere?"Madison shook her head, "It didn't seem that important to me." Three years ago, the government put out a contract for a new type of non-lethal weapon. They wanted something that could be used for crowd control, the war on terrorism, that sort of thing. The University decided to bid on the contract. They had two projects to choose from,". . He looked at me with an amazing expression of love and lust and I didn't worry about my withered leg or my body's asymmetrical appearance as I stood there, waiting for him to reach out to me, and touch me -- really for the first time, face-to-face, with both of us knowing exactly what we wanted.And knowing what both of us wanted was exactly the same thing.And I knew I didn't give a damn what my father would think. I didn't give a damn what my mother, or my brother, or anybody else would.