"It was true; lately the office had been requiring more and more of my time, and I often brought work home to do after supper. It wasn't fair to Donny...or me."We have a spare bedroom that I could turn into an office," I mused, "and we already have a phone and the internet." It was dialup service, but it was reliable."We can get office supplies and stuff for you, a file cabinet and a desk. What do you think?" There's a little bit more to it than a desk and a file cabinet, but I'll talk it over. He swam back to where she was. Christine felt herself wanting to cry. Not of sadness, but of happiness. This was going to be her chance to make love to the man she really loved."Christi? Are you OK? I'm sorry. I don't know what I was thinking."She felt him wipe her tears again. "I'm fine. I'm just nervous. I want you so bad Joey, it's just that I'm so nervous."He put his arms around her. His body felt so strong and warm. She could stay in his arms for the rest of her life. "I love you Christi.. Rose didn’t notice, but then she hadn’t known him very well before she took over. David was delighted with the change, he told Rose about it and asked her what it was she’d done. She looked at him in surprise and said she’d not done anything special. Then she suddenly connected the two, and said that she’d taken a load of sedatives to the surgery. It took a little time to sink in, but then David almost exploded. ‘So that’s what happened,’ he said through clenched teeth. ‘Janet simply kept him. “Yes we would win I am certain, but the Shiss and the Nul might very well get involved too and the Kermac are not an easy opponent and they have many Slave and Thrall species. Your new friend Stahl argued for many centuries that we should simply get it started and get it over with, but war is a terrible thing Roy and they are very easily started and almost impossible to stop.”She put down her cup. “Things are very simple to the Eternal Warrior but McElligott the other old Admiral says that the.