He sipped from his mug. “The garage is beautiful,” Kara remarked.“It did turn out nicely. I liked your suggestion of putting the extended-height...overhead door in back. It makes the front look so much cleaner, as well as more discreet.”“They did a really good job. With the barnwood siding and the standing-seam metal hip roof, it looks like it belongs here.”“It looks like it’s always been here. You were right about a slab floor, and the concrete contractor gave us a good enough price to pave the. I’ll go in and see when we are leaving,” I told them. General Clark was just coming out of his office as I entered the building. There was a rather nondescript Captain behind him.“Are you ready, O’Connell?” he asked in his big booming voice.“Whenever you are, sir,” I replied.“Josiah, keep a tight rein on things while I am gone. General Sullivan will be in charge in my absence, but he’ll depend on you for advice. I’ll be back as soon as I can,” the General told his Chief-of-Staff before turning. It was possible that more hollows would attempt to attack him- and if Rukia left there would be no one to stop them.Yuzu and Karin had survived this attack. There was no guarantee that they would survive the next.Rukia told him that Soul Society was likely to assign Kurakara a new protector, but Ichigo wasn't having it. Kurakara was a large place, and Hollows were quick. A protector for the entire town might not arrive in time. A personal protector was far more effective.Ichigo appealed to her. She was a dumb bitch, but fuck was she hot. She had that perfect face that I thought of when I jacked off, and although she had a slightly flat chest, she had a behind that I thought existed only in my wildest dreams. I dragged myself out of bed and headed for the shower, but before I managed to get to it my phone rang again, it was her, again, I turned around and sat on my bed, reached for my phone, and answered it. Half an hour later I was clean, dressed in fresh clothes and on my way home.