It seemed to come upon them suddenly, and before he knew it, it was early morning, dark, five thirty. The body next to him had her back to him, and hi... erection was nestling in the crack of her behind. It was a good warming feeling, and he did not want to move. He sighed and carefully moved away from her and slid out of bed. She did not move. He smiled; she was a sound sleeper and would find it difficult to rise early.Bob raised his head and padded out of the room to await release by the front. The woman knew, even though she turned the latch on the front door that it would be hours yet before it would be safe. Even at that, there were names on the emergency number list that could call at any time and mess things up. That did not happen often enough to keep the veterinary assistant from changing her plans.There wasn't much in this universe that could do that. Just being alone in the building, knowing what awaited, enforced such power over her she could barely stand unaided. Her heart. She spent much of the rest of the day musing about the sort of things that she would make Gwen do and very aware of the throbbing between her legs. Knowing that she was not going to get much work done, she visited several blogs dedicated to predicting the outcome of the current football season. Before she closed her machine down for the day, she was confident enough to email Gwen that she would take the bet. Almost instantly, Gwen emailed back an official wager statement. It was formally. What really shook me was the section where the Terran Federation's Secretary of Energy gave a speech on the stock piled reserves of power metals in the Federation, as opposed to stock piles on other worlds.I had been shocked to learn that the Federation was getting short of power metals. I made a note to stock up on fuel cores for my ship, when I got back. As it was, I only had one in reserve, thinking there was plenty to go around.The long and short of it was that the Terran Federation and.