If I flung the girl down to the ground and covered her with my body to protect her, I calculated that it was certain that first few bunches of shotgun...pellets would miss us. Scatterguns are pretty deadly at close range, but less of a danger the further away you are, but the cops were closing in on us fast! That might then give me only a second or two to calculate out the odds further of finding a way to get us both safely out of the crossfire.Oddly, as I grabbed her to heave her down to the. You didn’t know,’ she said quietly. ‘And, really, I kind of like your default…most of the time.’ ‘Yeah. So, I take it that didn’t go well.’ Natasha sat for a few seconds, staring at Tony and choosing her words carefully. ‘What happened, Nat?’ ‘He had…reservations,’ she said quietly. She let her eyes well up a bit. She could see it was having the desired effect on Stark. ‘He said it would never work out between us.’ She turned away, pretending to hide the tears she now let fall. Natasha stood up. Reaching down, the woman unbuttoned her skirt, stepping from it, tossing the garment in the corner with her other clothes.There would be no thought, no thinking about her mother, about her wilder sister who undoubtedly would have thought something like this deliciously kinky. There would be no thought of Hank, of her aunt who would undoubtedly have reeled back in horror. No, there was only her and that dog, that wonderful, awful dog now climbing onto the bed and edging toward her."Oh,. The music wasn’t to Robert’s taste, he had never really developed a liking for sixties pop. Rachel had pretty much dumped him by the bar and melted into the crowded dance floor. He caught the occasional glimpse of her dancing with other women and once or twice and also with a guy who looked like he might be a Rugby prop forward, but moved with a grace that belied his bulk. The scotch had been watered down or was such a cheap variety that all the taste and content had been left.