We walked around the rest of the house a lot quieter than previously and both felt as though people knew what we had just done, but also aware they ha...n't a clue. As we made our way back downstairs and through the old kitchen I whispered in her ear "I can still taste you." She looked at me and smiled and said "I can still feel you" and quickly rubber my groin. I looked around and saw no one there but my nervous reaction made has laugh. "Just checking" I said in my defense. "So was I" she. I tried to call Tracie and let her know that I was running late, but my calls just went to voice mail. I hurried up and drove home, took a shower and changed into my good clothes. I then raced to the hotel, and it was almost 10:00 pm when I arrived.I stood off to the side of the big ballroom, getting my bearings and looked for Tracie. I spotted her a short distance away talking with some of her co-workers. I noticed this big guy kept pestering her about something and I could see her shake her. ’ Julius indicated the monitors, which suddenly displayed what appeared to be the interiors and exteriors of other places like this one. The televisions displayed more than a dozen different locations, with the folk in them as foreign to her as their architectures. ‘We are but one node of many, all feeding one central hub,’ Julius continued matter-of-factly. ‘The whole campus, everything contained within the dimensional gate, all sits squarely on a natural … let’s say lens … whose purpose is to. This is a competitive business."Velvet watched the man turning red in the face. He was getting worked up over this and she realized he was angry that she and Tony had gotten the story."Does that mean you won't blackmail me anymore? That I don't have to put out for you whenever you get horny?"Velvet recoiled, thinking the man was going to hit her. His clenched fist relaxed a little and he smiled. The smile was more menacing than if he had tried to hit her. Williamson squinted against the harsh.