”“Wouldn’t it be better if the relationship we had was to become friends? Wouldn’t we then be able to freely assess our possibilities without ...he urgency that you are feeling now?”“Liam, you ass. Do you know how much courage it took to call you up and suggest something? And you respond in a perfectly reasonable way. It’s very frustrating for a girl. Yes. Of course, it would be better to become friends and see what happened next. I just...”“It sounds like you have something else bothering you.. I examined his body and found callouses where a person that was used to unarmed combat would have them. This was also the man that had commanded Park and his now dead partner.The other man was more Caucasian. He looked similar to the Russians I knew from my time. I figured he was around fifty but he was a very strong and virile looking man at this age. He too had callouses on his hands and I saw both of them as bodyguards instead of mages. I was not going to make a mistake and think of them as. She slumped, and a tear began to fall down her cheek.“Carol darling,” said Susan gently, “The Chief Exec. said that it was Liam who got Dannie so drunk she couldn’t stand. Everyone thought Liam wanted to get into her pants, but then, when he could have taken her upstairs, he asked the Chief Exec. to help when John was with him.“Everyone knows a Chief Exec. wouldn’t do that in person, and who was sitting next to him? If Liam didn’t get her so drunk for himself, why do it? Put it all together. That fear of too much pleasure, of what will happen to me should I cross the line or jump off the cliff to my release, surfaces again. My breath is thick in my throat, my heart thundering as waves of ecstasy roll through me. I can feel my completion building, each new sensation piling on top of the other. Absently, I am aware still of Asmodeus' soft tongue, sharp teeth and rough hands ravaging my breasts. The feelings are the source of my paradise but work so well that I am disjointed from.