"Show me container ZXC186."He smiles a half-smile."You know what we're carrying then?" I do."My XO steps up next to me and lays a hand on my arm, his ...yes locked on the Mercator's Captain."What is it?" Need a word with you in private, Captain." After I see the goods." Let me come with you." No. I need you to stay here and finish securing the ship, setting up the burn for Tortuga."His mouth hardens; he's not happy but he'll obey. He's a good man and an excellent XO. Veteran of nearly every war. Ever the wild one, she was back to being pushy, which increasingly meant pushing towards sex.It may seem completely implausible for a teenage boy to be putting the brakes on the sexual side of a relationship, but that’s how it was, and not just because of Dan and Ewan’s warning. My boundaries had been pushed a long way very quickly back when we played strip revision, and our first date where I went all dominant on her was a big step forward too. The problem was that I’d kind of scared myself,. The day everything changed for her was at one of Jill’s parent’s special parties, a lot like last night, but a much larger group. I didn’t find out until after I arrived that the special party was for most of their swinger friends.”As the party progressed Brenda became so demanding of my time and she had Jill so upset that she denied me from her until she said I could take Brenda. Long story short, I had been with most of the ladies at the party. They couldn’t say enough about my ability to. Wanda did not notice. One general took Wanda’s scabbard. The other bent to remove Wanda’s greaves and boots. At last the steel pants fell to the floor. Wanda was clad now in just her lavender inner silks. No man but these had ever seen them on a living soldier of the Sisterhood. If either of these men had seen such garments before, it was on corpses. To be caught ‘in silks’ was a supreme embarrassment for a member of the Sisterhood. But Wanda suddenly realized that whatever she was, she was no.