Pleased to meet you both. And call me Jean. You guys are a little shorter than I thought you’d be.”“The Marines are normally the ones with this ...uty. They’re the big ones. But we didn’t want to attract undue attention so they sent us instead.”“I guess your people saw all the Earth First signs up around here.”“That’s right.”I giggled. “I can’t believe I’m being recruited by the Confederacy. I’ll be all ready to go in a jiffy.”“You’re not being recruited by the Confederacy, Jean,” the Commander. "You going to let me in or are you wanting to chance someone seeing me?" Sorry, yes come in," he said hurriedly.As she walked past him, he took a deep breath and could smell the sweet scent of vanilla with an underlying hint of sex.Gabby turned to look at him and slowly loosened the belt that was holding her coat closed.Dan reached to help her out of it like the gentleman his mother had taught him to be. Gabby smiled as she slowly let him see what she was wearing, or rather not wearing under. That'show Millie and Mary became friends. Over the years maintained thatfriendship. After the divorce they became even closer. Millie's real-life experiences helped Mary become independent. From her advice twoyears ago regarding how to invest the assets from the divorce, Marydidn't have to work.It was mid-October when Mary invited Millie over for tea one evening.The tea was actually a bottle or two of wine. Like their other teas,Mary lamented over David's behavior. This time she mentioned. It was not meant to boost him in any away. The continuous increase of power in his soul, body and dantian simply felt too good, but he was impatient and wanted to already know what would be his limit. Hence, he gave in to the exhilaration and used a surge of emotions to hasten the newfound power out.A pulse of darkness dispelled the fieriness from the sky above. The ocean’s waves were cleared as a depression pushed the water down a level in a scope of fifty something kilometers. Far, at the.