"Joe groaned and cursed under his breath. She'd won, as usual. She'd won because he could never deny her anything she truly wanted, not if he had the ...herewithal to give it to her. He nodded. "But I'll do the paying." Uh-uh. I caused the problem. I'll fix it. Now tell me about your money problems."A little misdirection is needed, Joe thought. "It could be female problems as easily as money problems. I might not want to meet your beau's mother. Maybe I want to be true-blue..." Hah!" she laughed,. He slowly made his way to the patio door and ask what kind of dog did we have and I told him a mixed German Shepard, he seemed to be mesmerized as he stared out of the patio doors. I ask him did he want to own a dog and this seemed to bring him back to the present, he said had always wanted a dog but his parents were not animal lovers. I told him he was welcome to come over anytime to spend time with Riley as a matter of fact we're going to be out of town this coming Saturday all day and ask. There was only one small lamp on, but Tommy could see well enough."Hey you," Kristi said."Hey," Tommy replied. "What are you doing?" What do you think I'm doing, Hon?"Kristi was sitting sideways on the couch, covered by a blanket. The nightshirt she had worn when she came downstairs was on the floor next to her. As Tommy approached, she pulled the blanket down enough to show him her bare breasts."Kristi ... What are you ... here in my house?" Why not? We did it in my house a couple days ago.". ”Ruth asked, “Is this where we decide what we want to look like?”The corpsman laughed but did not talk directly to the girls. I noticed that all his questions and remarks had been made to me. “Oh, no, Master Sergeant. This is just the intake process to get everybody loaded with the medical nanites. Master Sargent, you’ll get an AI link, too, of course.”“Of course,” I replied. “Okay girls, hop in.” They seemed hesitant, so I helped lift them one by one into the pods. Before the corpsman closed.