”“Love ya.”“Yeah, yeah, love you too.”River closed his phone, opened it, and called Hox.“Hey Riv! What’s up, sorry I keep bailin’ on ...ou. My family is nuts.”“Don’t bother apologizing. If you hadn’t bailed on me, I would have bailed on you. I didn’t even realize I had this many relatives. What are you doing Thursday night?”“New years? My moms wanted me to hang out with them and watch the fireworks at the harbor.”“Um. That’s completely unacceptable. How about Adam’s lake house? You. Then it wastime to try on the bra. It took awhile to figure thing out. Which side wasin, what was out, do you slide it over your head? It was a tricky item tosay the lease. Once I figured out the you needed to unhook the back of thebra before putting it on things tended to move quicker. Left arm, rightarm, ok now hook the two middle pieces together in the back! That was achallenge unto itself, not seeing what your goal was! After many attemptsI final got one, only one of the two hooks together,. " So, lie? To the brass? Are you out of your blasted soon to be courtmartialed mind?" Jake snapped. He didn't like this one bit."Omit," the Naval man corrected him, narrowing his eyes disapprovingly. Hewas unaccustomed to be spoken to in such a manner. "Her super brain aside,"Commander Morgan continued. "I had my doubts. Had doubts right up until shewaited us all out until someone walked her to the door. She's confidentand ballsy in her role. She'll be good under pressure."Jake shot a glance. In that case we’d ripped everything off in our hurry so we knew whom we were with. We ignored the two other rutting couples in the room. The two guys were evenly matched, it looked like, and their mutual oral stimulation was enough to set the daughter and me well on our own path to scale the heights.The other couple had cast their masks off and I knew both of them. They didn’t pay any attention to us, as far as I knew then, but I had a hard time looking our ambassador in the eye in the next few.