. with another friend. No blood. We can go as far as we want with each other... but no blood. We stop short of that."Earlene nodded and smiled. She to...k Laura's face in both hands and kissed her warmly, slithering her tongue into Laura's mouth. "Thank you," she murmured. "Thank you for bringing it up... making us both know it."Laura smiled. She drew the coil of rope she had just used to caress Earlene's cheek down to one of Earlene's magnificent, jutting breasts and caught the full dark globe. His want was slightly numbed when she gently bit the curve of his ass. You stay right here, Holly ordered, her sweet voice turning hard. The publisher stayed bent over his desk as he heard the young woman fumble around with her purse, the sound of contents being squeezed out of a bottle clearly filling the room. Another squeeze of the bottle was followed with a sharp cooling sensation over the publishers rear end, the gel slowly rolling over his skin. Relax, sugar, her sweet country voice. . childish. Or maybe, it was because I had become jaded after my experiences with the Untethered. the concerns of my classmates seemed trivial at best, not worth giving a thought. The things that had seemed to encompass my entire life before the last month now seemed meaningless in comparison to the upcoming conflict that would decide the fate of our planet.“Hey, let’s go! It’s already time for our next class!” Turning around to look in the direction of the voice, I just nodded at the speaker.. We had a private audience with him after the ceremony, sir." Just you and your father-in-law with the King??" COL Page asked in surprise."Yes, sir. We were in there for several hours. He asked me how I won the medal, and I explained about the battle at the pass and my part in it. Afterward, he thanked me for the 'firsthand account' as he put it." The King did - himself?" Yes, sir. The King. He really is a very nice person," I told him."All right. That wasn't the reason that I called you in.