His fusillade was just as easily deflected.“Aella, please disable their ship and then target individual weapons if they continue to fire.”I felt t...e rail gun activate and saw their engine take a hit from a single, small caliber shell, turning the engine into shrapnel.“Engine and power supply disabled. Enemy ship is on back-up generators. There are several leaks in their hull,” Crystal reported.I turned to face the panicked captain. “Your ships are still more than ten minutes away. Do you think. They were gorgeous, of course, but they were also incredibly sexy (two things, he discovered later in life, that did not always coincide). But, they also reminded him of every girl in his high school who had snubbed him -- the popular girls and cheerleaders who wouldn’t give him the time of day and acted like he was something nasty stuck to the bottom of their shoes. In truth, part of this was Jim’s own fault, but that’s not relevant here.Debbie had opened his eyes to his own attractiveness,. You’d have found it in a few years, anyway. Or rather, sort of accidentally made it. Subconsciously. I don’t really know how it worked. But it just focused a power you already had. One that you both have. I think it’s a recessive gene or something.”Jake raised a brow. “So then you...”“Have two copies, yes. I learned to bend time from a very young age. But by then, Sarah was already… well, let’s just say that she took the news about you two really badly. Oh, and she’s been cheating on you.”“That. “She wasn’t right for him, but his mother wished it, and he has always had a hard time saying no to his mother.”“I was amazed when he bucked her on becoming a doctor, but she had finally let him have his way when he threatened to leave.” He looked at me with speculation, “Did James tell you that his wife became pregnant that last season he didn’t come home?” I shook my head. It would have added insult to injury that she had been fucking another man, while he wasn’t home if she had been in.