He could nothelp but smile thinking about all the patents he and his wife currentlyheld. All of them were now locked into the trust fund dedicated sol...lyto the male child, Steele Strongshaft. He was going to get a free ride,while she was going to have to compete for scholarships."Ion levels at optimum!" Miriam shouted over the deafening hum of themachinery. "Hit the big purple button on my mark then run for thesubject tube!"Of course, he would take pity on her. Not monetarily, but he could. One of those gatherings where you go with a couple of friends, and end up in the corner with the resident's pet. And there you'd sit, just staring out into the crowd, noting everyone pairing off and getting wasted. You don't know why you bother coming to these, and half the time you aren't even sure why you're friends with these people. After a drink or two, all they do is tease you. You're the virgin, you never get nailed, you never cut loose, hell - you probably don't even like boys! Maybe. But I kept telling myself that later, when I am watching the DVD, I am going to get just as turned on as I did when I watched the first movie. I was looking forward to David's reaction to it, too. I loved pleasing him. I thought it was kind of special that I could still do it from half a world away. I just had to force myself to concentrate on the end result and not worry about the horrors that awaited me in that backyard.Ted didn't bother to knock. He just opened the door and pulled me inside.. "You stuck your nose in something you shouldn't have white boy," he said as he slipped another jab past my guard and hit my jaw. "Now you pay the price before I take the little Jap girl and her car."I saw stars for a second and then lost it. I moved in and, ignoring another punch, drove my shoulder into him and started pounding him through his raised arms. It didn't matter if my fists or his own hit his face as I pummelled him. I switched to his stomach and swung an uppercut into his exposed.