. Waiting, dumbfounded. I finally spat out:"tom, if you want my help in the future, I think you'd better apologize-RIGHT NOW!" But, I thought YOU'RE h...re to apologize to me?" He grinned. Me apologizie to HIM after he squirts ME with oil??? But my mouth strangly sputtered... "Well... Yes tom, obviously, throwing that lemonade yesterday was-" no, I mean, what we said about my cunt-faced bitch of a wife."WE? He was acting like I was INTO him calling pam that stuff!!! I was kind of excited by his. " But ... but Prince Balor... ?" He can keep his insipid bride, I no longer care," she said, moaning as Magnus began to play between her thighs, touching her lightly."Ah, but there's the rub, lady," Magnus said slowly, withdrawing his fingers and rubbing the wetness onto her naked back, "I do. The Lady Luria was to be my bride and carry my child, conceived upon the night that she gave her virginity up to me. The son she carries now is my heir, mine, not Balor's and I must retrieve her so that. The first one put her in the ambulance, and I followed it to the hospital. By the time we got there, she’d had another and was dead. I would have liked to have been there when she died, to hold her hand, despite her ... well despite everything.”“You mean her religious views?”“Yes, but not just that. She ... she was strong on discipline. Very strong.” Joan sat down and waved at Jack to sit to. What was coming had to be explained properly, not as an off-the-cuff conversation. “When I was fifteen,. And the human military WOULD NOT stand for a sterilizing planetary bombardment of Earth with dinosaur-killer-sized asteroids. Though kinetic strikes from orbital positions were going to be an integral part of the fight, the end game on Earth was going to be an ugly, down-in-the-mud, slugfest with entrenched Swarm. That kind of fight was in the Marine’s wheelhouse.“Isn’t it early days to be working out a strategy for re-taking Earth?” I asked.“From the projections I’ve seen, the best-case.