He could feel his face going red.“I was wondering if you have a bike, Mo?” Grace asked him. She’d stopped grinning, at least, and was just looki...g steadily at him, with those eyes.“Yes I do.” It was a relief to give that positive answer. He couldn’t keep up with a car on a bike of course, but something in her eyes made him not say that, just yet.“Cos with four of us, depending, you know, which way he goes, we could follow him for a little way, and then next day be waiting further up the road,. Apparently, the saber-toothed cats did not take disappointment well at all. The three cats pawed at the shield and growled.Spring asked, "May I?" Pete read her intent and nodded assent. She pointed her shotgun at the closest cat, and poked it in the nose through the shield. The cat sat back and stared hard at Spring. She put her hands on her hips and stared back fearlessly and just as hard. Pete focused his empathy and mental monitoring at the cat.Felix, turned his head, looked at the other two. Suddenly she had to be naked. Usually she didn’t like to be naked. To see herself. But it seemed okay now. She wanted to see herself. She pulled the nightdress over her head and threw it on the floor. Don and Ashley looked at each other. Theirs had been a largely nonphysical relationship for a number of years but now the old fire flashed between them. Don felt himself becoming erect, something that hadn’t happened in a long time. ‘Juan’s finally getting that piece worked out,’ Don said. He’d. " Yeah, why force them?" Mike asked. "Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me. Hey boss, maybe I should have turned pro. Been a hell of a lot easier and more fun than what we'd been doing for the last eighteen years."Okay, okay; yes I should have kept my mouth shut but with a straight line like that could you have resisted? I couldn't."It'd ever work, Mike," I said shaking my head."What are you saying, needle-dick?" she asked sweetly looking at me dangerously. Normally when Mike starts the sweet.