.. let me take care of you, she murmured, the pure joy in her telepathic voice tempered by the tenderness in her mental and physical touch.Putting hi... full trust in her, John did as Jade asked, losing track of time as he enjoyed the pleasantly soothing embrace. She started asking him about his past; beginning with how he’d grown up with his grandparents, helping them run their restaurant. The Nymph seemed to delight in reading his thoughts and she began to ask about his time in the military,. I was scared but something inside me told me that I just needed to relax and everything was going to be ok. “Now miss,” said the man on my left, “Boss wants to see you. He has a uh…test for you. If you pass, then he has an offer. He knows you well and hopes you cooperate with us. However, if you are at all uncomfortable with what is going on just use the safe word. That safe word is ‘red’. Do you understand?” With surprisingly little thought, I quickly and maybe a little too eagerly shook my. They didn’t realize it was my signal to light the fuses.“Our scouts have reported no sign of any other troops,” one of them said confidently.“Did they report the presence of our troops before they raided your camp in the middle of the night?” I shot back.That comment hit a nerve. “It’s your funeral,” one of them said sourly. I signaled my troops again as I turned and rode back towards them. I felt the twin impacts in my back at the same time I heard the crossbow strings release. Lying flat. ”“And then she calls the cops,” I said.“I don’t think so. That doesn’t fit the pattern. I think she and Penny have a VERY long mother-daughter talk and, in the end, you get away with it.”“Get away with it?”“Having sex with Penny without going to jail.”“And then what?” I asked.“That’s up to Alice. And to Penny. I can’t even begin to predict how Alice will come down on this. She may well go full hypocrite on you and forbid Penny from ever seeing you again. She might allow you two to see each.