He didn’t even pay attention to what he was betting, he just placed the same amount of money up there that Eli did, and took his tickets.He stepped ...ack to watch Pike and Cecily Blasingame. He was more interested in what his son was doing than he was betting.He’d never seen Pike this way. He’d seen Little Eli and Isaac with Kit and Ruby, but this was his own son. He was amazed at how much Pike was just like Little Eli. He already seemed like he was years older than his thirteen years. Moses had. Oh, I'dhad two, I guess, in college, and one since, but they'd never really goneanywhere. Who knows, maybe if I'd been more of the Bruce Willis type...?I rejected that idea even as it was forming in my brain.We were sitting in Penny's living room having dessert and tea when Itried to respond to the things she had said. "Penny, I could feel myselfgetting all defensive as you were talking before. And I didn't like thatfeeling. As you went on, I realized that what you were saying was righton the. I dropped to the ground and lay prone while I planned my next move.While I was down, the gang had fired off a steering blast and were now checking to determine if it was enough to put them on the final course. This was not the kind of calculation that a simple hand-held computer could do, so they were depending on a precalculated course generated by a super computer before they ever left for this job. As it was, they still had a lot of calculations to do, along with some damned tricky celestial. I heard him walk in and close the door behind him then walk to the night stand. I was nervous. I was totally exposed to a complete stranger that honestly could of come in with a knife and I'd of never known any better of it. Then I heard the sound of a zipper being pulled down and the tearing of the condom wrapper and I felt relieved to know my fears were unfounded. He placed one hand on my ass and then I felt him slap his growing erection on my other cheek and the realization I was about.