You can’t have it both ways. I’m your girlfriend, your fuckbuddy or just your boss. On Earth, it’s common for a couple to spend a year or so cou...ting, to see if they could live together before marriage is even mentioned.”“Do they fuck other people?” he asked with interest.“Not if they are trying to find out if they are compatible. If they go looking for sex outside of the relationship, then they have other issues and generally the relationship folds unless that person is being courted by both. “Have to what?”“Kill them first?”“If you don’t want them to kill you.”She opened her mouth to respond, but stopped herself. Darian was the first one she had ever seen, ever, who didn’t want her dead. It was a fool’s hope to think others might do the same. And if she was going to come on this journey, she would be the one drawing people’s ire.But drawing the ire of people was better than letting Darian run off on some insane quest without her aid. Maybe.“Are you still squeamish about it?” Darian. I couldn't very well tell them why I had written "Beaver Hunt", that my buds and I spent just as much time at the strip joints as we did on the pond, that we partied pretty heavily. Now the thought of my pretty young daughter accompanying us--Jesus, the guys would probably eat her up the second we hit the woods. No fucking way! I pursed my lips and thought of a way to get out of it. But it was no use. By the end of dinner, too late to change my own plans, I had agreed to take Lindsey along.A. Because I could imagine how your mouth felt. I could imagine sharing your breath. And I knew you weren’t for me.’ Oh hell! End this nonsense! ‘I wouldn’t ever expose you. Please believe me. Go tell your roomie. You don’t have to worry.’ Then she did start crying. She had been holding everything in all night and had believed whatever the absolute worst was. Her face crumpled. She was standing there helplessly, not even trying to hide it, while I looked around to see if anyone would stumble onto.