”“Two words,” Joe continued with a devilish grin, emphasizing his words by pointing up his index and middle finger in the air with each word he ...uttered, “Lisa…Montero!”Hearing her name, I tried to suppress my smile because this was not what I intended to talk about, but I could feel the heat growing in my cheeks.There was a brief awkward silence as Joe stared at me. Not so much looking at me but through me like he was searching for something. Giving him a shrug and an awkward grin, “What the. Begin count-down.”“Engineering, report,” Ashley commanded.“Jump capacitors charged,” Solace reported.“Jump space insertion in six minutes, mark!” Ashley barked.As the seconds counted down I was scanning the space surrounding us for threats. I cut power to the maneuver thrusters. Sometimes it’s a good thing to enter jump space under thrust. The procedure then was to cut thrusters after jump space insertion and power them up when exiting jump space, but that complicated the navigator’s job. A. But then Amy got excited and breathless all over again. "Oooh! That reminds me! Guess what he told me, just after he told Sis and me about all that bad stuff, right as he was walking away?" What?" He said tonight is the night for you and me, together! Can you believe it?! Last night he took my ass, and tonight he's going to watch while you and I are going to go all the way for the first time! Does life get any better than that, or what?"Suzanne smiled, calm serenity personified. "Nope. It. There were lots of BS emails but nothing from anyone I cared about. Of course all the really juicy emails went to the farm. Anderson and the junior ambassador were in contact with the case officer who pretended to be me.I wondered how well he was as a woman, he might be the male version of me. Everyone thought I was high on testosterone all the time. Maybe he was rolling on estrogen. That kind of thought helped to pass the time, but there was still a lot of dead time because my brain processed.