What if we got a stubborn bastard like the one that failed to pick up Ashley! Oh, shit!“Excuse me, please! I am Sergeant Désirée Auvray of the Con...ederacy Marines. This is my partner, Corporal Talbot Hirsch. I understand that we have some prepacks here, and I have been sent to extract them. In fact, we have a bonus pair of prepacks, all the more reason to do the pickup in this location. Will George, Steve George, Arlene Harris, Jack Martin, and Zoe Mancuso, please step forward. Now, does. ”James gave a nod like he’d expected as much. “Good to know. The reason I mentioned it was because it ties to my second point, my guild will take on any job. If you want someone dead, then you just have to pay for it.”Artimus wasn’t quite sure what to make of this young man now. Even after he’d made a point of showing that he could see through the Emperor of the Empire and that this assassination would be the bargaining chip he would use to force the guild into compliance, the man still agreed. * * *He was three, maybe four. His mom was playing with him on the floor ofhis room.She took his G.I. Joe, and she put a Barbie dress on him. He laughed, andhe laughed. She hugged him again. Let others say they were too close. Howthe hell could you be too close with your own kid? He had taken aPopsicle and frozen his lips until they were cherry-colored. He cackled.She wiped his mouth. Then she took a tube of her lipstick and had him sitstill. She ran it over his lips until they glistened. "So. I don’t think she heard me whisper, “And you’re becoming my night and day.”It took me a lot longer to drop off, my hand relaxed from holding her breast but, as I tried to remove it, Gina snuffled in her sleep and held my hand close to her hot breast. It took me a lot longer to drop off to sleep after that!Monday was a quiet night in for both of us after work, sitting and relaxing in pleasant company with Fred and Pam in their sitting room until we declared an early bedtime. Gina came to bed.