More confident, more assured." She serious, then?"That auburn head nodded. "Sounds like it, baby. Now, what's your side?" Jason's talking about sticki...g with me and Dan in the business, but YOU two talked him into looking to see what he needs to get his engineering degree at Auburn."Giggle. "I thought so," Tina said. "Alan, it might be more serious than that. Susan asked me something today." Oh? What?" That put my mind to spinning through a whole list of possibilities, some good, some not."She. ’ ‘Hey man, let’s at least make the seventh inning stretch,’ Richard moaned, ‘It’s not a game unless you make it through the seventh inning.’ ‘Okay, that’s one more inning and we’re gone, right?’ ‘What if we start to catch up?’ Richard asked. ‘Look, they get within five next inning we’ll stick around a bit longer, otherwise we leave.’ ‘We are getting killed here,’ Mike added before chugging the last of his beer. ‘Hey, cold beer over here,’ he shouted to a vendor heading up the aisle. He reached. Sam asked me to move into Blair House and take over two suites. One was for me. The other was for conferencing. Mine was quite comfortable. The conference room was ... a conference room.Hawk played his part perfectly. He continued to exercise his responsibilities but did absolutely everything in his power to make the transition smooth and painless. His staff wanted to be kept on and Sam appeared willing to work with most of them.The Cabinet might be another story, altogether.Sam was not. "What did you tell him?" What do you think I told him? I told him thank you, but I was fine, couldn't be happier, and wished we could stay longer but had places to go and people to meet." Oh," I said. "See what I mean? You should have waited another year or two to sink your hooks into me." Should have, could have, would have," she said tossing one hand. "What's done is done. Don't cry over spilt milk." I wouldn't, except the milk that got spilt is in your pussy and might be making a baby," I.