She relaxes again, allowing herself to melt back into the chair while I toil the ice cube away on her delicate forearm. The trick is to give moments o... intense sensation followed by immediately moving to a much lesser sensation before her mind has time to register how her body is reacting. It's like those workouts with short bursts of extreme intensity followed by periods of less intensity. Except, this time she looks forward to the high intensity.With the cube finished I reach for a new one.. “That sort of thinking led to the disastrous battles against Hannibal,” I replied calmly. “I was under the impression that Rome had learned the lesson that rushing into a direct confrontation was not always a wise idea. Had Fabius Maximus lost many more troops to Hannibal in those direct confrontations, Hannibal might well have walked into Rome unopposed,”I reminded them.Yeah, it was an exaggeration, and I’m sure they knew it, but I made my point. “Each time we faced an enemy that outnumbered. She was bored yet again. She had been trying her best to tell herself that life was going great, but deep down she knew she was lying to herself. Melissa grabbed her iphone checking the time seeing it wasn't even 3PM yet. It would be at least another 3 hours until her boyfriend Greg would be home.Melissa and Greg were high school sweethearts. They met after being put together to work on a group project in one of their classes, which led to a few years of dating, and now just a few months after. Thursday night was pretty uneventful. Ashley joined me with some of my customers for dinner and then we had some pretty uninspired sex and went to bed. She was still asleep when I got up the next morning. Knowing she was probably still tired from the trip, I let her sleep. Before I headed off to meet our local people I left a note that I would meet her at around six that evening and then we would go someplace nice for dinner. The meeting ran longer than expected and then the traffic was crazy..