" Tad was positively wide eyed now. "Then again, maybe you're just meaner than them sneakin' gypsies. I heard tell today about the deal you made with ...njun Joe that you wouldn't kill him like you did Hawkins if he was to stay the hell out of Texas!"Jim was flabbergasted to hear about this new rumor beating him to Gonzales. "Tad, that ain't quite the way it happened. When I turned Joe over to the Sheriff's office in San Antonio, I only suggested to him real politely that he might ought to leave. I brought out my precious stash of Sam Adams dark which we drank through the rest of the Rose bowl.The second binder was an eye-opener. The dish-shapes on the bottom was an emitter. There was no console control for it--the damned thing was too edgy to manage by hand. It was all under computer control. I could pick up a building about ten city blocks in size, about 22 stories tall, or equivalently deep. Yes, I could hijack an aircraft carrier. That's what the parameters were built around! I. That’s obviously how I ended up pregnant. He turned out to be a complete ass (shocking, I know). Between that experience, my career, and caring for Alex there was no room in my life for a man. Other than Alex, I guess. My main sexual release was a nice steel bullet vibrator and a small silicon dildo. That seemed to be enough for me. A couple times a week I would wait for Alex to go to sleep, take a shower, and lie naked in my bed fucking myself while holding the bullet against my clit. . She could already imagine this conversation getting back to him and her having to explain what she meant.“Imagine you’re a djinni,” Kiki said to the whole group. That got a lot of blank stares.Artemis held up her phone. “Paul just checked his messages and he’s freaking out. What do I tell him?”“Tell him Wesley chundered on a billionaire and it’s now Paul’s job to make everything better by having sex with Nick,” suggested Carl.Artemis had brought her phone down and started typing. Now she shot.