The Military establishment were aghast that we had allowed the invasion to go so far without more stringent response but the Commander-in-Chief was co...vinced the invaders were all "misinformed victims" driven to their violent response by the Nationalistic faults of American misguided superiority. He felt certain that after "things quieted down" he would be able to convince them to withdraw provided additional funding was secured to send them on their way. The "old-timers" at the Pentagon were. Jade quickly shuffled over to him, leaving Nate, Carly, and Andre to stand there and grasp for conversation."We should go with him," Carly said, as if this was the only option."Like hell," Nate said, looking around the room. "He wants to head up there alone, more power to him, but I ain't leavin'."Andre started to agree, but quickly realized why Nate was not exactly trumpeting for Freddie. The cowboy still had something protective with Tori and the fact that he, and Jade, had hurt his longtime. In fact, there wouldn’t be anything that she would do about it because this was something that they both have done through choice and so would hardly hold a grudge against Tom if he decided that he didn’t want to be caned anymore. On the other hand, she loved the way that he cried out with each stroke, and how each time the freshly raised welt appeared within moments of her pulling the cane away. She decided that she really did like having control in this way, and wondered if that was one. Due to this there was a lot of resentment in the house and as such arguments were par for the course on a daily basis.It therefore wasn’t surprising that when the lottery ticket did come up as a single jackpot winner with a sum amounting to just short of £10M I didn’t stick around for long with her. Don’t get me wrong we weren’t that unhappy but I knew our marriage and run its course and it was time to look for pastures new along with half my winnings. I gave the other half to her and she and.