.?Kaylie giggled at that. ?Some things never change.?Since Kaylie wasn?t coming over to give me a hug, I went over to herinstead. ?You?ve grown,? I ...nnounced, annoyed by the fact that mygranddaughter was not only taller than me, but getting even more so. ?Youneed to start drinking coffee, to stunt your growth, so I won?t have tokeep looking up at you...?Kaylie laughed again, while Rich said, ?A little too late for that.?Then he grinned mischieviously and said, ?That sure is a nice dress.??You. "Tell me how bad you want me."Overwhelmed with sensation, with desire, with her beauty, I could barely think. I stared at her as she finished undressing and walked over to me."I didn't hear you," she said and she suddenly removed the clamps from my nipples.I yelled in pain and she tenderly kissed and licked each one until the maddening pain was gone.She unclipped my cuffs from the chains and, grabbing me firmly by the throat, pushed me back toward her bed.I stumbled back, barely able to walk,. "I set the whole thing in motion!" But after she'd explained her reasons for her own inclusion his arguments crumbled. There was, he saw clearly, no valid reason for him to go; there were imposing ones for her. He grumbled, he pouted, but he couldn't disagree and in the end he acquiesced gracefully.Because as much of the Ark's enormous available space as possible had to be left free—free for the precious cargo it hoped to collect from Eden. Unlike on all previous missions the ship's purpose was. "Done it again, by golly," he said. "Thought I had y'that time. Dang bust it!" Another?" asked Mr. French who handed the dime to Luke Williams and was given a fresh mug of foaming beer."Maybe Sa'day," the man said, rising and stretching his back. "You are absolutely the slowest, meanest an' mos' aggravatin' player I ever seed. But I'm gonna beat 'cha." Just careful," said Mr. French, downing the beer and wiping his mouth, the back of his hand reminding him that he needed to shave more often to.