Like a jolt of electricity. The moment I saw him I was attracted. And he could tell. He knew he'd caught my eye. I took my seat and tried to figure ou... what had happened. I was hot for this man, in exactly the same way I would get hot for a sexy woman. Tried to put it out of my mind and opened up the book I'd brought with me.We took off. I found myself casually leaning out and staring up the aisle of the plane, trying to catch a glimpse of the steward who'd had such an effect on me. He caught. The exhausted defenders were gathering their kit and returning to either Camp Shackleton or Base Scott, and Samantha's tiny armoured force of six massive Rommels were rumbling their way back to the tank barn from whence they came. Because Thule's rotation was less than Earth's 24 hours, the sunlight from Thule's single star, yellow like the Sun of the solar system but smaller and weaker as Thule's orbit was farther out than Mars, was beginning to cast its sunny cheerfulness on the blasted. Igwanda and his troops were girding mentally for a possible battle, while the seven civilians could only sit by and view what was to happen.There was also an undercurrent of resentment among the civilians for what they saw as the colonel's autocratic intransigence. Toshimura and Shaw had ostentatiously avoided greeting Igwanda as they boarded, and even the diplomatic Meiersdottir was somewhat curt. For his part Igwanda paid no attention to the social slights if, indeed, he was even aware of. James look at her with a smile and said Oh is it Happy Birthday. Thank you she says back. James then says you know here am me and I don’t have a present for you. Have you had any today? She says no I haven’t yet with a dirty looking look on her face which James saw and made his dick throb.Oh you haven’t had you he says. Well I don’t think I have got anything to give you. Britney smiled again and got up off the bed and walk over to him and said. ‘Well there might be one thing you have got.