He helps Sam up onto the table, and restrains her legs wide open, then restrains her hands above her head. He looks at Simone and takes one of Sam's ...reasts in his large hand, pinching the nipple. He notices Simone is looking at the floor instead of what is in front of her. “Simone,” He orders, “Your eyes should be on us, nothing else.” “Yes Sir,” she replies meekly. He leans over and takes a nipple in his mouth and starts sucking and biting, never breaking eye contact with Simone. Sam moans. I was surprised how hungry I was. I looked at Boo, and once I had emptied my mouth, I replied, “Well, I’m probably going to have to do some grovelling first.”I happily piled more food into my mouth as I looked at Boo’s shocked face. I gather Queens did grovel where he came from. “I came here without my Shields,” I explained between mouthfuls.Xia chuckled, and Boo shook his head in understanding. Boo said, “They can be rather odd about their Queens taking off without them. Considering what it. What if they don’t like me?”“Doesn’t matter. The ceremony is only for the public anyway ... and your folks, I suppose. We’ve already bonded.” At my puzzled look he went on, “I’ve something in my pocket, I’ll think about it, you tell me what it is.”It was perhaps the strangest thing I’d experienced to this point, like someone adjusting an old-style broadcast TV antenna. There was a flickering image, suddenly clear. “A folding pocket-knife,”I said, not nearly so certainly as the clarity of that. She couldn’t hold down a job and she’d been living with the boyfriend so when the rent was due she had to go somewhere else. But where?The older man next door had visited with her at the laundry room and helped her carry groceries and so on. When he saw her sobbing quietly as her clothes dried, he asked what was troubling her.When he found out he simply said, “You will come live with me. I have room and would enjoy your company. It is lonely living alone.”That brought on a flood of tears but,.