We settled on the patio furniture next to the fire pit, that I lit before sitting next to Amy and pulling her legs over my lap. Without speaking we st...rted kissed passionately. After our kiss broke . We started talking, she brought up her daughters birthday that was a little over a week away. She was turning 18 and her proud mother had been showing me pictures of her all night. It didn’t take long for me to offer they have a pool party at my place. but I think Amy immediately synced my motives. He’d learned to read the signs and it was still too soon, she wasn’t ready for that step yet. He wondered why he was so impatient. What was it about her that affected him in this way? He’d never felt this urgency before. He had this yearning to take care of her, to take care of both of them, and it seemed to consume him. This had never happened to him before, normally he was the one who panicked about commitment, as soon as there was talk of moving in together, of marriage or children he would. His reputation as a businessman outshined only by his wartime accomplishments and work ethic, having putting his hand to work raising the very timbers of this very manor. Though like many great men he boasted more than his share of flaws, being domineering many of the servants being taken aside to be ‘punished’ or to ‘serve’ his needs. He has broken many a servant within his dungeon men and women both, taking pleasure in utter and complete control. The Lady of the house stood their in a violet. Probably a good thing. Open heights like this terrify me.”He looked at me. “Honestly, me too. Don’t slip, now!” He teasingly pushed me just a little.The sight of two warriors dressed in armor laughing at each other was probably not what the new Arch-Mage expected to see coming through the archway to the College. She looked at the warrior woman standing next to her with a bemused look on her face. “Is she like that all the time?”Lydia smiled back at her. “My sweet, when you live life on the edge.