One of the monsters lagged behind the other, Panther caught up to it and without breaking stride, kicked it into the air. It slammed into a tree, and ...as sliced to bits by Panther's plasma claws as he ran past. Matt saw Jennifer stumble and fall to the ground, with the other creature almost upon her, its deadly saw arm and tail ready to strike. He leapt forward desperately, Panther's hand reaching ahead, and hit the ground hard, smashing the monster mere feet away from Jennifer. Panther propped. ‘First, you’re kidding yourself about your looks, don’t sell yourself short. Besides, it’s a double-edged sword anyway: If you’re attractive to the muckety-mucks–you know, fuckable in that midlife crisis-I’m hip because I read GQ-I’m going bald so I’ll buy a sports car kind of way–then you belong in the secretarial pool. But if you’re not attractive to them, they don’t even look twice at you OR your resume. It’s a bunch of bullshit, but it’s reality. They’re not going to hand over the reigns,. It has a big two story barn with a loft, in which to raise breed and ready them for market! It is a hard and difficult life that he is barely able to scratch out, he needs a woman and also wants a son to help, and carry on his family name! Around one of these Cattle Stations was a boozer a watering hole where most who worked in these places went to lair it up on Friday and Saturday night for drinking and carousing along with the chasing of them skirts! Most of the women that worked in. "For someone who has to clean up that mess outside, you're in an awfully good mood." He heard a female voice from behind and knew immediately that it was Anna Hess. Nobody other than his spunky, red-haired second in command or perhaps Malcolm would ever have the audacity to walk into his office in engineering unannounced and invite herself to sit next to him.He had known the red-haired she-devil since the academy. She had just joined STC while he was in his final year. The southerner had seen.