I had seen the sweat on his face and the fear in his eyes.“All right,” he groaned, “the keys are over on the bookcase across the room.” I chec...ed to be sure that was where the keys actually were and then returned to Tony. I cut off his control of his voice again and reduced the level of pain, some.“I will leave the three of you like this for now to contemplate your misdeeds. When I have determined the full extent of your misbehavior, I will see what other punishment you require,” I informed. His arm was probably weary, and his fastball, usually in the mid-90s, was almost as much of a floater that day as mine was, on my good days.But our offense was on the job, and we stumbled through the first six innings with both teams scoring almost at will. The game was already three hours old and Toronto was leading, 9-7 when Paul finally took the ball out of Shiggie's hand with two out in the sixth.Our relievers were also a little worn from overuse, so I wasn't too shocked when Paul called on. No man had ever kissed her before, but that didnt confuse her that much. Men liked to have their mouths on her body, and they liked for her to have her mouth on their bodies. So it made logical sense that he could be aroused by their mouths touching. After all, Cassius was aroused by strange things. She accepted that as part of who he was. Second, the fact that he would be angry about other men touching her. Thats what whores were for after all, but it made sense to some part of her that if men. "They have asked where Cruit is but we have told them he is on assignment until later this week. I suppose that is true enough. You will enter from the side door and block all exits after they are seated."Jorgarn was close enough to the entry to hear when the Symingtons entered."Landor!" Lord Symington boomed. "Thank you for greeting us personally. We didn't expect to see you until later. How is Lorida?"The King did not reply immediately."This is a formal meeting, Lord Symington," the King said.