I got up and walked to Julia’s office and asked Stephanie to come to mine.“Becky’s engaged,” I said.“Thank God,” Stephanie said. “At lea...t this removes THAT potential stumbling block!”“Becky and I were not going to be together again, Squirt. That was never a risk once Jessica came back to me. But it does bring to a close one of the more sordid chapters of my life.”“Finally. Do you realize she’s the only person who ever made me mad enough to slap you?”“I do. And it makes sense. She was the one,. I explored the tantalizing recess of his belly button with my tongue while I gripped his waist with desperate strength, afraid he would disappear on me again if I let go.And he responded, moaning and writhing underneath me, arching his back and gasping for breath under my relentless assault. He let me set the pace, take what I needed, even though I could feel his erection pressing against my belly, his hands fisted in the sheets to stop himself from grabbing at me and taking over. I could. “I need some water,” he said after a moment. We got up, he headed to the kitchen while I made my way to the bathroom to freshen up. Once I got to the kitchen a moment later, he was leaning against the counter, sipping on a glass of water. He had put his jeans back on but he was still shirtless. He looked amazing.“Funny how fucking for over an hour makes one so thirsty,” he grinned. I glanced at the clock and realized that we had been fucking for way over an hour.“Holy fuck! I don’t think I’ve. Superintendent Ten used the same technique to transmit his words directly to her ears.In the past four years, while learning from the reading material in Eden Formation's Summit and Grandmaster Kartion about the basis of soul formations, Zax had yet to attain a proficient enough level to create a formation that could match superintendent Ten's Soul Binding formation. But he was able to experiment. And although, overall, the variation he came up with is not better than the original Soul Binding.