"He was committed now, he knew. And he knew that whatever happened, he was going to get hurt, probably badly. But with what was at stake for Shahia, w...at did it matter? So he needed to accept that he was going to hurt, to lose, but he had to put that aside and focus on achieving his own goals. His first priority was to make sure that Jerry didn't get to Shahia, and his second was to hurt Jerry as much as possible before he could no longer fight.When Jerry got close enough, Chris suddenly. She did spend a little bit of time trying to hack her way further into the control system of the device, but she was distracted by a new message from her computer, and lost interest for a while. All in all, Maura got the feeling that Ann viewed her entirely as a piece of hardware, and not as a human at all. The idea was a bit frightening.The following day, the hacker awoke in a foul mood. She had done some drinking in the evening, and was no doubt suffering from a hang over."Get the fuck out of. The descent was in many ways more of a trial than that long climb which she had barely been able to complete. One compensation for the perilous nature of the downward journey was the gradual slackening of the terrible cold. By the time she had reached the plain, her knees, hands, arms and body bleeding from several falls on the way down, and her left eye bruised and cut from contact with one wickedly sharp stone which had broken a particularly nasty fall, the air was warm again and she sank to. Her legs were roughly pushed apart and shefelt them both being closed in stronger cuffs. Then she felt her armsbeing lifted until she was stretched up on her tip toes. His hands began caressing her back with soft strokes. Then she felt thetexture of rabbit skin fur being rubbed down her long legs and across herbuttocks. She smelled the familiar smell of baby powder next as he rubbedit over her shoulders and back and buttocks. She moaned under his softtouch her head falling forward in.