The time had come to put up or shut up. Rudy turned toward Beth and leaned toward her smiling. “You look lovely today,” he murmured, making sure ...e was loud enough for Shoemacher to overhear. While not in Sophie’s league, Beth was still an alluring, albeit haughty woman. She immediately brightened. “Why, thank you, Rudy! It’s nice to be complimented by such a handsome man!” The two men at the table stared. They both knew Beth as a poised, matter-of-fact individual who had no sense of humor. We waited for about 10 minutes for two women to show up.The first thing one of the escort said to Susan was, "Can you assure us that your slave is sufficiently respectful of women and will not cause trouble if we allow him to come with you?" Susan responded correctly, and we were escorted to the ship's control room.There we found eight women occupying various work stations around the control room and one woman sitting in what must have been the commander's chair, though she made it seem more. Well over 6,000,000,000 people on this planet. Like a snowflake, everyone is different. How could I judge and treat my own daughter based on the collective of that many people? All the good, and all the bad. She treated me as one; why not I to her?If I somehow did subliminally train Chelsea to love me this way, as a father, it was my duty to fix her. Maybe though, I trained her to fix me. Everything happens for a reason; perhaps.Chelsea’s hands reached up and gripped around my back.“I love you. It had literally felt like someone had ripped the very soul from my body and left only a lifeless husk. If I hadn't had the girls to lean on this time I had little doubt that it would have been the same way now. Because I did, in the morning I was able to tell the girls that I was ready to try and make amends with Jackie.Getting her alone was no problem and Tina said she'd manage to get her there by herself. It was actually about the time that I had met Jackie before but we hadn't met this time.