I leaned over to kiss her. In doing so I wrapped my arm around her embracing her body up against mine. I held her tightly not wanting to let her go. I...went from kissing her lips to her neck. I pulled off her shirt and undid her bra. Letting her breast simply hang out in front of me. I touched her breast and kissed her nipples before licking them. I continued to kiss her body until I got to her pants. I unbuttoned them and removed them from her body leaving her in front of the fire topless and. Emily would have it out with Amber come Monday morning at the motel, but that didn’t help her much tonight. Amber was a rat. Thinking of that made Emily smile, if only a bittersweet smile. It was Tony who was the rat—more of a ferret. Emily agreed with Amber’s parents on Tony. Nick didn’t, though. For some reason he and Tony were buds. They couldn’t be more different—Nick blond and tanned, both hulking and a hunk, working under the sun in construction, and not all that bright. Tony was small. Cody's revelation should have made the staff seem like magic. However, the information filtering into Cody's mind from Enki let him understand that the staff was simply a technology beyond mankind's grasp.His perception of one of the staff's functions gave Cody insight into another reality. The end of life was simply the turning of a page, in reality, and even that turning of a page could be delayed. He also understood that, if his life ended on this mission, it did not mean that he couldn't. I reached down,stroked him a few times and quit cause I had to get the thoughts out of my head. I looked at my phone,it was going for noon and I had to get up and get ready for work that afternoon. I laid there,listening to see if I could hear anyone or anything going on in the house before I got up and walked out of the bedroom naked to get me a soda. No sounds anywhere so I took it Madison had left. I made my my way to the kitchen and as I rounded the corner,Madison was sitting at the table.