As I walked to the car, carrying the bags of stuff the girls had already bought, I stewed over Lidia’s expression. Maybe I had underestimated her a...ility to withstand the Rach treatment; I hardly knew her after all. I laid back in the jeep considering as I waited for them to finish their shopping. Rach had pushed me to the breaking point, but never past it. Perhaps Rach knew better than me what Lidia could handle. She defiantly knew her better; and while my experience as her target had. “Another change is our sleeping arrangements.” I froze. Was she going to stop making love to me?” When I spank you you sleep in the spare room, but that means I suffer if you misbehave. So, from now on, if you earn a spanking I will give it to you, but we will still sleep together.” “Oh, right, Sharon. That makes sense.” What a win, I thought. “Good. On the other hand, I will also be stepping up the spanking, making it harder and longer.” I supposed that made sense as well. “OK, Sharon, harder. ”“I can’t help it if she derives pleasure from doing that to me. Oh, she is closing the portal up now, did she choose anyone?”“No, I don’t think so, I think she has brought a new addition to our group, look they are over there in the corner.”“What do you suppose they do, you would think she had enough of us by now she can’t keep bringing new ones in, how much pleasure can one woman want?”“I heard one of her lovers say she was a greedy bitch and insatiable so I guess the answer to that question. "That was Hugo," answered Kate, "He runs the planet and has never had time for a live-in woman, so he borrows occasionally. I would expect that he would be a regular customer when we open. As to the next level down in the hierarchy, there are six or seven bosses who run things. Bernard, my man, runs the farming effort and nominally food distribution; Vincent runs the power side of things like the electricity generators; Andrew runs the infrastructure, like the water supply and sewage; Jason.