"I'm sorry, Colonel, but if you want to have a conference I think we'd better all just stay right where we are and do it over the command channel." I'... willing to concede that point," West hissed. "But I will not have lieutenants and sergeants speaking to me in that manner." Whatever," said Rollins, and you could almost see the jerking-off motion he was making. "So what do you got for us?" A pull-back order I trust," said Captain Boothe, commander of Alpha Company. That had been the prevailing. " Julie recoiled when she saw the bottle. "Booooring." "I've never used this one." Elaine observed, twisting the top ofthe cap and breaking a small plastic seal at the bottom. "Grandma sentit to me." That figured. Grandma Abbie had never been very girly, and theattitude had colored her every gift to Elaine. James momentarilywondered if her mother had told Grandma about her transformation. Therewas something that would probably go over like a lead dirigible. "So, what do I do now?" James asked,. Maxine was, in her way, as ruthless as Alexandra but she had a dark secret that had involved the death of one of her whores and the subsequent disposal of the body. This had been the lever I had used to prise confidences from her. That and the threat that I would harm her if she turned against me. In fact we had become secret lovers and I had promised her that one day, when my aims were achieved, she would share some of my life. “She asked me if I could arrange for you to meet again.” My arse. I did my best to hide a little bag of bloodstained hankies from Kate’s sharp eyes. The last thing I needed was for her to call in some drunken sawbones to screw my body up worse than I felt.Usually, I would give it to Kate from behind early in the morning with her doing all the work and milking me like I was a cow needing to drained of all my cream before I exploded from the pressure. This weekend was different and we both knew it because I had no interest in matters of a carnal nature and that.