It was all making love. There was no point where I did anything, or put up with something, to get something in return. Every act was of itself, and we... loved giving each other pleasure. I thought of Megan and Jimmy and how they had so much further to go, so much trust to assume.I went to stand up and hug Bill and he put a hand to my shoulder."Wait, I saw something here you might like," he said as he pulled a vanity drawer open. He handed me sample packets of baby wipes. "These may be a little. Also my hand had started feeling heavy by bearing part of its weight. I relaxed my fingers so that it went completely limb on his manhood. Now my fingers covered his manhood from half of the shaft to the head. It felt like holding on to a hot rod. I kept like that without moving for some minutes. Even my animated talks had subsided involuntarily. Both of us where looking on to the meaningless papers sternly. It was pin drop silence for a moment.Then for the first time I decided to act in an. Their statement concerning "forces hostile to Oceanus" meant they would fight only against external foes. An attack from another part of Oceanus itself fell outside this venue. Q'yros had picked up on this meaning immediately. Why had not Z'haas?Q'yros stepped off the dais. There was no railing against this now. The damage had been done. Now it was up to the Mage to practice damage control and salvage something manageable.Again.When Amanda was hurriedly awoken just before dawn, she briefly. .Linnet woke with the dawn, the half-familiar sensation of having company in bed at first worrying, but then reassuring as she woke fully and was able to make out Jamie's sleeping features. Her pulse, which had begun to race, steadied and she experienced a peace beyond anything she'd known before, knowing her relationship with this man was light-years away from the attachment she'd felt towards Ted Quinton. She was happy and complete for the first time in years, possibly in her entire life..