But his brain was whirling furiously. Fear lived in him like an animal in a dark cave. Who was that casually grinning man who had come out of nowhere ...to threaten his very existence? How could he have known about Cindy Jamison? How could he have known about the others as well, about the use he was making of his position and the government regulation allowing him to open public mail at will?And most important, what did he want? What did he intend to do with his knowledge?Blackmail? the clerk. She heard a series of sniffs that told her that her mum knew what was coming and raising the hairbrush brought it down firmly on her mums’ bare bottom cheek and was rewarded with the loudest grunt so far and the spanks continued so the squirming and leg kicking quickly speeded up.Susan had known that the hairbrush was going to hurt but not as much as it did. She knew that Sarah had told her how her bottom stung more and more with each spank but Susan now knew that as much as she was told how. We were near a service station, so we could wash her and throw away her torn dress. I had this one in my gym bag. I thought for a minute the guy would kick her in the face."That covered three questions that had leapt to Miss Walker's mind: lack of blood, a familiar dress and the smell of shampoo. Then her attention returned to Pedro, who was feeling extremely shy. At that moment, he could not have chosen a better attitude. Miss Walker reached her decision."Such a pretty girl. Well, she should. This time would be straight to trash as far as Bax wasconcerned.He'd been chasing Savannah Miller for the last couple of weeks. Ithadn't been that hard for him to catch her either. She had some prettyclear interest in him and Bax usually didn't have that much of an issuewith getting girls to agree to start dating him. It wasn't an issuethis time either, at least as far as it meant when it came to herwanting to spend her time with him. That wasn't the problem. Theproblem was that he had misread.