I love you so much. Please let me show you I can change." I am tired and am going to take a bath."I went over to her in the hope of giving her a cudd...e but she stiffenedas I approached and moved past me going up the stairs. I watched her gofeeling as though my whole life was in ruins.That night I prepared supper and lit candles and we talked a littleabout trivia but the coolness remained and at bed time she stood andturned to me and said, "Over the next month I want us to be justfriends. I. The Assembly sent its units on missions based on committee requests from its member planets. These requests were to maintain order over the vast network of planets. There always seemed to be an uprising or police action popping up at the fringes of the network. The work was bloody and dangerous and each mission could be their last. Those with an instinct for survival found their way to Grenville’s team. He’d been a soldier for 13 years when they were shipped to a world to battle against a. He could just imagine what kind of status Princess Alexena would grant this woman! A woman who had had the temerity to give the impression she could challenge the might of Barbaria!However, being a wily bird, the Captain agreed to a meeting at which conditions of surrender would be discussed. His object, of course, was to capture the larger island of Sythia without a fight and, even more important, to ensure that he took this Princess Venetia alive. As his own Princess had ordered.How pleased. I tried to delete from my mind the image of Gabriel leading my curvaceous girlfriend in one of those Latin shuffles and told her about the contest. She had never heard of it but did know the mega sex-shop owner from her dedicated research on hand-job habits worldwide. The guy, she told me, had a distinctive sports car and lived at Gardenia Villages. It wouldn’t be hard to spot him around. ‘Tell him you’re a friend of the girl who subscribed to 'Handy Asians'. I don’t think he's forgotten.