He was just happy she wasnt one of those people who used numbers and symbols instead of typing out the words. The pleasures all mine. See you in a fe... hours, sweet dreams. He pushed away the anger and focused on how great it had felt in the foyer to almost-kiss her. His dick hardened, but it felt disrespectful to jerk of with her in his thoughts. Down, boy, he muttered. Beth picked the girls up early the next morning, just after dawn. Daphne wasnt back yet, but Gabe wasnt worried. He could. ”“The evacuation has now started in earnest, Mage Morgana. We estimate at least three hundred thousand Azurans have ported out. Some however are refusing to leave; some have even attacked our forces,” Adsila announced.“We expected that,” Morgana grimaced. “Order them bypassed and for our people to stick to the plan.”“Yes, Mage Morgana,” Adsila replied. “Mage Roxanne reports that her group have destroyed the altar to Irin in Lorkhan.”“And the sky didn’t fall down,” Arch chuckled.“Indeed not,”. Oh my, the major was embarrassed. I stopped grinning. ‘Please, sir?’ He lifted his head and locked his eyes on mine. His hands went hesitantly to the buckle of his belt. My eyes followed them. He paused, then undid it. Then the button and zipper on his khaki pants. He moved slowly, diffidently. I guessed that he’d never stripped for a woman before. I licked my lips when he started inching his polo shirt up his belly. He yanked it off. Oh me oh my. With his shirt off he looked like some pagan. Pausing to catch her breath, Jen looked back towards the tents set up by the start line. She could see three other women making their way across the field, the furthest with still a third of the distance to cover, and the slowest not even half way across. All of them were clearly struggling with the terrain and the rough ground on the doubtless tender soles of their feet. Only the furthest probably stood a chance of reaching the woods before the head start time expired and the hunters set.