"By the way, if you've already given him oral and anal, he'lldefinitely be expecting you to put out."The day wraps up soon after that, leaving me to c...ean up and get changedback into my usual boyish t-shirt and jeans. I'm left with a sinkingfeeling in my stomach: The dread of having to see that guy again, thehumiliation of the whole ordeal so far, and the unfulfilled horninessafter experiencing an exaggerated form of my ultimate fantasy but stillbeing stuck in chastity. At the end of it all. ”“Right now we have to behave,” Logan said quietly.“Exactly,” Lauren replied, “and I’ll talk to Panthea. She surely should know better...”“Marcus...” Tamara stretched as she called to him from near the cracked-open door of the storage shed, “We should get moving, right?”Hannigan stirred slowly, then sat upright, “Yeah.” He yawned and shook himself. “We have to find food and water soon.”Tamara’s stomach growled angrily and her tongue felt parched and thick. Her muscles wanted to cramp up with. I don't feel like singing soprano the rest of my life."He poured a glass for Carol and handed it to her and then poured a glass for Amy and she took it with a shocked look on her face. She had not expected him to let her have a glass of champagne. Brad went back to the bar and put the bottle on the counter and went over to his recliner and sat down and tuned the television to cover the celebrations. The girls were chattering like little preteens and they came over and sat on the floor in front. Someone else could supervise the overhaul process at Jupiter Station, once we had the bugs worked out and were just sending the ships through the pipeline.I had spent all my attention on the big picture, making sure that we could safely use these starships. That was necessary, but it wasn't sufficient. It was painfully clear that I needed to address the other side of the coin, whether we could use them effectively as warships. There were a couple of Important Questions that I needed answers to.