Theo smile reassurance before returning his attention to Graham. The smile on his lips took on a sardonic cast. It was all he had to counter the weigh...y authority of Graham’s police uniform. Graham met the youth’s bravado with a smile of his own. He liked Theo all the better now. Jesse must have sensed the tension in his friend. He followed Theo’s eyes over to where Graham sat and began to lift a hand to wave at Graham. Theo was unwilling to release it. His eyes still challenged Graham. Jesse. Bliss was a new blow that I’d not experienced. I had not been rejected by anyone in a long time and I wasn’t quite sure how to process it. For the last four years I was used to getting my way. For a moment I thought about blackmailing Ms. Bliss into becoming my sex slave again but dismissed that. I liked her. If she was happy, then I’d be happy for her. It was the first negative female interaction I’d had since Ella and my mind went to my ex-girlfriend. I wondered how she was doing in. ’ Her conscious nagged at her, but her excitement was still all over the place. It didn’t matter. She was going to enjoy drinking this one bottle. With dinner she decided. In her bare apartment, the one bottle went into her nearly equally bare refrigerator. The freezer wasn’t much better, but there were four cheap TV dinners in there. She wished the macaroni and cheese tasted better, but the kind she liked, the blue box, needed too many other ingredients needed to make it and she could hardly. Scrounging around Matt even found some crackers and cheese that he organized best he could on a plate. Tray in hand, Matt made his way back upstairs to his suite. Pausing to listen at the door he couldn't hear the shower running, but knocked on the door anyway to announce his arrival. "Hey, Sofi... are you decent?," Matt asked."Sure... come on in, Matt," Sofi replied. "I may not be decent but at least I'm finally covered up," she laughed. Sofi was standing by the window looking out on the.