“I’m sometimes overwhelmed by your generous heart, Grace. You claim that I know what to do or say for you, but I’d argue it’s you that always ...eems to know how to make me feel loved or safe, or whatever it is I need at the moment.”“We’re pretty good together, huh?” she said as she nuzzled her head against his chest.“We are, indeed, Gracie,” he answered. Then, after a heavy sigh, he said, “I’m sorry to substitute a lovely sit-down breakfast with Starbuck’s drive-thru, but at least there I can. It was terrible they had to kill the human later but that was how things always were, had always been. Looking into her daughter’s mind she saw that she had chosen very wisely indeed. The male was handsome and quite virile for one of his advanced year. Hmmm Isis thought maybe they might not have to destroy him after all.“We need him to spread as much as he can within the next 12 cycles,” Isis told her daughter. “All depends on this even with the one that he has sown already, we are still weak,. I don’t know how she got on your good side and I didn’t, but consider this my own plea for mercy and forgiveness.“By the way, Joanna here forgave her ex-husband, Les, as well as her sister, Brandy, with whom Les cheated. Long story, for some reason, Brandy needed to get pregnant, so they had an affair. My own needs are more ... lustful in nature. I’m just not cut out for monogamy. Neither are you, from what I can see here.“Nor is the likely father cut out for any kind of relationship at all.. I am, or I suppose I should was, a US Marineofficer, not long back from the war in Iraq. I had been assigned torecruiting duty, against my wishes, as I had no desire to lie to youngmen (and women) and try and get them to enlist in the Corps. I loved whatI did, but I knew that lately the USMC was a hard sell, mostly due to thewar. Even worse, we had to try and recruit women, because the Corpsdesperately needed women Marines in the war zone to help search Muslimwomen. Of course, I had my own.