She flexed her arms and legs held firmly, but not harshly, by the restraints that kept her from moving off the padded surface of the horizontal St And...ews Cross she sensed she was lying on. She was in no pain, no discomfort. All she wished was that she did not have to wear the blindfold. Not now. She would never have told anyone about him. Ever.She knew he had come closer and despite herself her breathing quickened as she knew what was to come. Jolt! the feeling shot through her stronger than. She loved getting his letters in the mail and she regularly sent him some as well. Owen was close to home, even if he was far from her heart. Danny was the opposite. He’d signed up for four more years. Maybe after this enlistment was up, they could become a couple. That was years away, though. Amber ran the bath hot and took off her socks. She pulled an orange dildo out from a hidden spot in her bathroom cabinetry and grabbed some K-Y jelly with it. Amber was a beautiful girl, standing 5 feet 7. The little Cavalier fishtailed down the road spewing gravel and a cloud of dust out behind it. I didn’t think that 95 horsepower engine with a three-speed automatic would do that. I think the garden tractor had more kick in it. But Mary Beth had her fun and we laughed all the way into Centennial. That’s when she really surprised me. Instead of turning right to go into Laramie, she turned left and headed toward the mountains. I didn’t think the little car could make it over the pass, but she. “The aliens are retreating to their command fleet, but fighting all the way if we get too close.”“We’ve won?”“Looks that way, this part of the battle anyway.”“Good. Costly, but good.”“Yeah, sorry for your losses,” I acknowledged, glancing over at the body-bags of the unlucky.“Would have been more if you hadn’t been in command, plus you’re a Healer too.”“Still hurts though.”“Yeah, I get that. Same here.”It was thirty rotations later that we were relieved, even as the Melanoqi Legionnaires doing.