He stopped what he was doing and looked at me saying, “For heaven’s sake no, Denise. You haven’t done anything wrong. It’s just that it feels ...a little weird being alone with my best friend’s wife in a situation like this. And if I can be honest, you look so hot in your t-shirt and shorts, that I’m not too sure that I trust myself around you.”It was refreshing for a man to be honest about his feelings. It was making me wet having him compliment me and reveal his desire for me like that. I. I think you fucked up.”“It wasn’t even about him. I was pissed about other things; I just took it out on him.”“Does that strike you as being at all unfair?” She sighed heavily as I looked at her. “What did he say that made you so angry?”“Nothing. He just asked if he could buy me a drink. Banal, and right after I’d just gotten one, so bad timing but harmless.”“And yet you ripped him apart.” I didn’t ask what she’d said; I didn’t want to know.She winced under the criticism. “That was stupid and. “Always Captain. Record of this exchange is being made, so orders will be received and followed,” the AI said from a nearby console. Alex finished his delegation of orders before he sat on the bed connected to the Spock.“I’m sure that I’ll have zero issues with the ladies following your instructions, sir. Even though Inari was the Captain of the Darkstrider, I was the ship’s ‘mom’. Anything anyone did had to be run by me first, being the oldest of the lot,” Korsa said.“Something which she. Anyway, there'sno doubt I'm getting better, four streams over 75 this year, and it isonly 21 days old. Luckier, says Sal, but she might be a little jealous.I'm pretty sure streaming is a talent though, you make your own luck.And it isn't like I don't work hard.Anyway, I head up in the elevator to my apartment and have a quickshower and shave, and gather the data of the streaming. So I shouldreally fill you in on some background before I carry on, becauseotherwise none of this is going to make.