..I came for the boy, and I'm not leaving without him."They were at an impasse, Dianna realized. She stepped into the living room, keeping the fist ho...ding the collapsed baton hidden behind her hip. She saw three people, two of which were big men wearing ski masks and bulletproof vests, with combat knives in their hands. The third was a thirtysomething blonde woman, unarmed, but she was holding Seth! The boy seemed unharmed, and was still asleep.The blonde shook her head upon seeing Shepherd.. ”“Then why take the licenses?”“Ironically, to prevent this kind of action against us,” I replied.“What about Skye and the others?”“What about them? There was no non-compete and she didn’t reveal anything about the Lone Star internals. She was working on our customizable interface. It was Kajri who built the configuration files to mimic Lone Star’s system. And we know from Apple v. Microsoft that ‘look and feel’ aren’t subject to copyright. We took great pains to make sure every field on the. Sunday morning Ruth tried to think of why she could go to lunch. All the excuses she came up with sounded so lame and fake. In the end she decided she was being silly. She dressed quite conservatively as usual and drove the Mark and Stella’s house. Stella answered the door and seemed extra cheery. Ruth was relieved. They chatted away, as old do, while Mark set the table and avoided eye contact with Ruth. She wasn’t sure if Stella noticed or even knew why.Lunch was served and the chatter. Sheena started to tell her story. “It happened about two years back. I used to date a boy named Wade. He was a year older to me. One evening after seeing a movie, we drove to a secluded spot on the beach and started petting. Wade had some beer in the car. We sat sipping beer and smooching. We got hotter and the petting wilder. We left the car and lay on the sand wildly kissing each other. One thing led to another and Wade’s cock put an end to my virginity. “It hurt a lot the first time but by.