. Call the doctor! Dad ... Can you hear me? You're going to make it. I told them that you were too tough to die. I told them. What happened to you?"St...ve is a second year student at state college majoring in engineering. He's a good kid. I'm proud of him. He loves me and can't understand why I couldn't live with his mother. He never saw the vengeful bitch that she is. I never tried to explain it. Maybe, I didn't have to. She wasn't much of a wife, but she was a good mother. The real truth would. Vicki was sound asleep beside me. And I had to pee.Coming back from the bathroom, I noticed a light shining up from ground level outside the rear bedroom window. I’d installed motion sensor lights above all the exterior doors and windows and they were sensitive enough to turn on whenever a raccoon or armadillo wandered by.Security is a concern for me. Because my family is fairly wealthy, we’re targets for robbers and burglars and kidnappers. Four years ago, my sister was snatched off the street. Punana was crying now, actively begging him not to hit her. He rested the cane across the top of her nipples again, lifted it again, swished the air. punana went limp, its knees weak, its head dropping forward on its chest.Mark slowly slid the cane down the front of punana's body. The crowd held its breath, watching punana tremble, its body tensing as it wondered what he was going to do next. Mark swatted the front of punana's thighs, up and down from knee to crotch, a total of a dozen lines. I thought I was too old and mature for one. I developed a crush on him soon after meeting him when we moved in next door. He was different from boys my age. He was five years older than I was. By the time we had another awkward moment, I was beginning to think that there was something going on between us. I had just finished taking a shower and dried myself with my towel. It was hanging back on the towel rack. I stood naked in the bathroom with the door shut. The door just opened. Brad stood in.