Mark hurriedly tucked his cock back into his pants and quickly zipped himself up before standing up and looking toward the back door. It was their new... neighbor, Clifton.?Come on in, Clifton. I didn’t know it was you.?Clifton walked in carrying a bowl of something as the screen door slammed shut behind him. Clifton was a tall slim black guy about six-five. He hand long fingers like an NBA player and reminded Mark of a player for fact.?What’s up, Mark? Is Jennifer home???She went out shopping. It was another good reason why a lot of people who may not approve of me didn’t bother me. I had set up my trade of them some years before.”“The crystals from this cave have exceptional quality and clarity, and I am paid well for the crystals I do sell. I have no idea who told who that I was bringing the crystals back with me, but some not very nice people knew I would have a large quantity of them with me.”“Even so, when I am travelling with a lot of extra crystals, I don’t travel the known. There was a muffled sound, then a thump, both only aninstant apart. Opening his eyes, he saw his friend's body slumped over, hispain and humiliation at an end.Claudius felt a sort of timeless haze settle over him - vaguely, he knew itwas time for him to step up to the plate. All that had held him back weregone.The whore he'd bonded with long ago was dead.Hadrian was dead.Ajax was dead.All that he held dear would soon be gone when Baldric initiated theself-destruct, as he most assuredly would. She let him know that very soon his two main sources of painwould be those shoes and the corset which would make him feel like hewas being cut in half.She let him know that she might relent and take a whip to his nearlybare ass, just covered by the silk of his panties. Or she might do anyof a large number of things that she loved to do to helpless males.How long he stood in his rigid pose he did not know. He only knew thathis feet were on fire and his legs ached. He was certain the corsetwas.