When she refused he hit her with a back handed fist knocking her to the ground. That was it! I stepped between them and told the interloper. I found o...t later he was Shasta's hostile and abusive ex-boyfriend. I told him to pick on someone else. The idiot laughed at me and told me to get out of the way or I'd get what she got. Oh the look on his face when I blocked the strike he aimed at my head and I landed the combo of a thrust kick to his groin knocking him to his knees the a roundhouse kick. “Stand over here and lift your arms.” I went over to her, next to the kitchen sink, and stood with my hands locked behind my head. “Ouch, that looks nasty,” she said, dipping a cloth into the bowl and touching it to the worst of my scratches. It hurt like hell, but I wasn’t about to wimp out in front of her twice, and I gritted my teeth while she stroked me with the cloth. Maybe I was getting more and more aroused as she inspected and applied her “medicinal” touch. I could feel my cock swelling. There were elderly like Charlie's grandparents. There were young children running around and screaming.Everyone was having a good time. Except Charlie. He was sat down on one of the chairs, drinking his punch drink. He told Ivy about the party and she told him that she would get back to him on that. In the end she said that something came up and that she couldn't come to his house.As Charles was sat down drinking, he saw his mother approaching him. There were some women and guys his age coming. Before, other women were competition: just harpies trying to take away her Tom, and she was there to protect him from them.Esme did not come over as that sort of woman. She came over more like a sister; gentle and caring for other people; someone Felicity could work with. She would henceforth be an acceptable friend in Felicity's eyes.The girls returned to the room, and declared the crockery washed and dried, and all put away in their places. Felicity spoke to Fearn, for the first time with.