"It's time for your rules now, Sweetie. Get down on the floor on your knees and place your hands behind your head. Look at me as I'm talking to you." ...he looked up at me and I began. "I think you've learned that insolence and disregard for order in this house will be met with severe punishment. You will not question anything I tell you to do, just do it. Keeping the house clean and doing the laundry is your responsibility. I will 'help' you to learn how I like it done. If things are not as I. The AI said if I was real careful it wouldn't wake you up."Well, I had told the AI to answer questions. "I'm awake now, so you can keep going." I was still tired, and it came out as a command, not a request.Her black eyes flashed, and she squeezed hard, hard enough to hurt. The look on her face was the stubborn defiant one she sometimes gets. "Can't make me." she said, and bit the tip.Looking back, it was more shock and surprise than any real pain. I don't imagine she was trying to do anything. I wouldn’t say that he ended up liking me or even that I earned his respect. I figured at best he wasn’t going to try to influence April against me. That is all I really wanted. I was into April, not her dad.Either April forgot to mention or I didn’t realize, but this was the Livingstone annual picnic for his factory. I gained a lot of respect for how the guy treated his employees. At one point he was rolling on the ground with two little five year olds playing some form of silly game. He. A moment later another pitcher arrived at our table. The waitress explained that the guy who had approached Julie wanted to make sure there were no hard feelings and was buying us a round. We poured a couple more glasses and raised a toast towards him.Joking with Julie, I told her we better make sure we look like a couple, which again made Julie blush. I reached out to place my hand on hers as we refilled or glasses. She responded by grabbing my hand, and leaned in near my ear and whispered she.