He was antsy about something, but I didn't know what. "You run get your son and we will pull the bikes down for him to get a good look at."After she l...eft the store, I walked over to Marty. Come on we are going to give the locals a demonstration of the bikes." Why?" he asked."You told me this whole thing wasn't just about your ego; it was about promoting these things as alternate transportation for the poor." Well, it is," he said. He knew he had been snookered."Well, I doubt you are going to. " Which in no way qualifies him as an expert," Allyson shot back. "The prosecution objects to the title attributed to Mr. Dusker. He is in no way a doctor..." Let's do this in chambers," Manning cut in before the jurors heard enough to order a mistrial.Allyson clamped her mouth shut before another syllable escaped. Two minutes later, all the participants were seated in Judge Manning's chambers."Your Honor," Quinn began."Just a minute, Mr. Quinn," Manning said. He gestured toward Jonah. And beneath it ... she slipped into herself, and the ache intensified and sweetened.She WAS a bad girl. A little bit of pride flickered in her heart. Touching herself wasn't disgusting, it felt good. Really, really good, in fact. Fine, if she was a bad girl, she'd be a Bad Girl. She'd been punished before, many times, and she'd learned that sometimes being Bad was worth the paddle, even the crop. This seemed to be one of those times.She rocked her hand on its heel, pressing at the top, probing. “One thousand,” Toff.“Fifteen hundred,” Ed.“Two thousand,” Toff.Jude looked at both as if they were insane.“Twenty-five hundred.” Apparently, that was more than Toff owned.“Anyone else?” I thought it was too sudden for everyone else to react. Five seconds had passed from start to finish.Kate sighed. She had the silver, but wasn’t willing to prevent the frontliners from getting their hands on armor, she was safe in back and needed it the least.I could tell that from her hesitant expression.So.