This time things were differenthowever, I lay there quivering expectantly, my bottom in the air, not atall excited about the prospect and then she beg...n to use her crop on mypoor soft bum. She was angry, almost violent, telling me that I shouldnever argue with her when she told me what to do. She didn't hold backand I am ashamed to say that I wriggled so much to avoid her strokes thatshe actually held me down with her other hand on the small of my back.She didn't hold back, even as I begged her. That made me feel really good because she was the type of person that deserved the very best.As I thought about her situation, I started thinking about my older half-brother, Glenn. He was the product of Mom's first marriage and fourteen years older than me. That made him thirty-four years old at the time of this story. Even though he was married, I thought he might be excited to learn what Mom and I were doing.One night I called him up and luckily, his wife was out with some girlfriends. Even. "What the hell do you think you're doing?!"He grabbed her around the waist, dragging her back towards the house. Rich, her older brother and most avid tormentor, was much taller than Teri, and stronger, ignoring her struggles. "Do you want to get killed?" he shouted over the storm."Mom's out there." Teri yelled back, her fingers pulling at the arms wrapped around her slim waist. She wriggled against him, their wet clothing sticking to each other as he carried her back up the porch and in. Normally, they would reach a midpoint where they had to shed their velocity as orbital mechanics played out its dance. Pilot would shut down the Drive, turn around, and fire up the Drive, ridding them of the delta-v they had built up until they matched their destination. Even that was hitting a bullet with a bullet. But now, they would flash by the orbit of 2 Pallas with no stopping and no 2 Pallas anywhere near.“Pilot, recalculate for 2 Pallas rendezvous with turnaround while running at 98%.