The General emerged from behind an observation window with one arm concealed behind his back. "Well, since you wouldn't talk before, I thought maybe w... could 'persuade' you to speak. I'll give you one more chance, Major. Will you answer my questions?"Malone sat motionless in his seat. "You are a stubborn one, aren't you? Oh well, no worries. You won't be half as stubborn soon. Guard!" One of the burly men stepped forward, a pair of scissors clutched in one massive hand. He carefully cut the. ’ she felt like she needed to remind him, but the brush of his fingertips against her lower spine made any further rational thought difficult. Realizing his other hand had insinuated it’s fingers snugly between her knees didn’t help. ‘Seemed like forever.’ ‘Well, then, why didn’t you?’ Blue tilted her chin teasingly. John chuckled, mirroring the chin tilt and looking down at her through his lashes. ‘I suppose I wasn’t listening to my inner voice as well as I should.’ ‘You have an inner voice?’. At his touch my body tingles. “I mean it.” He looks me dead in the eye and suddenly his face goes serious. “It’s completely my fault, I didn’t knock.” He let’s go of my wrists. “I wish there was a way I could make it up to you.” He leans back and ponders some ideas. I sit up on the couch. “Well you can’t.” My stomach rumbles and I get up and walk over to go get some food. “But since you're here anyways, would you like some food? I ordered extra because I was going to save some for tomorrow, but. ..if you like you could come home with me and..." Finish what we started?" I asked hopefully. It was a strange moment, we both knew what we were referring to, that we wanted to have sex, but neither of us seemed able to actually say it."Yea," she replied awkwardly. I wondered if it was starting to really sink in for her, that she was going to take home a girl who, only twenty minutes ago, was her legal pupil! It seemed like the more she thought about it, the more she was put off by the.