The bonus from the Long Range Exploration Corporation for finding a new planet, plus extra from the Multigalactic Drugs Combine for the aphrodisiac fr...uits she had brought back with her, had enabled her to have the ship fully upgraded.She had left the details to D4, who knew better than she all the extras and upgrades needed to make her long range voyages more enjoyable and more comfortable. Even in this, the Twenty-fourth Century, boredom was still a major problem."Standard temp and grav. "Beth drove several minutes in silence taking all of this end. Sherealized that Thomas would never admit to doing this, but she wascertain that he had appeared to her mom in a dream. And what Thomassaid made sense."Well if you had appeared to my mom in her dream I would have saidthank you," said Beth. With that Thomas smiled and they put thesubject away and never spoke of it again."So, what did you want to talk to me about?" Thomas asked."First, did I do the right thing with my family? Will. I just couldn't remember the order for, say, Cook, Vancouver and Tasman. I was still thinking when Weena arrived."Hey! How'd it all go?" Pretty well, I think. Let's have a glass of something before dinner and talk." Sure. I've got dirt for you, too. Let me get into real clothes."Weena ran upstairs and I went to fetch two glasses and a bottle. I wondered briefly whether I was becoming a lush — wine at lunch and before dinner — but decided not yet. There was a bottle of something I'd never heard. Despite my harshest self-scolding, I was semi-erect and the bulge in my loose shorts was becoming increasingly noticeable. As I poured more oil over her legs, I forced myself to think unsexy thoughts, praying I would be soft by the time the hour was up. I couldn’t help but laugh as I conjured up mental images of old, ugly naked people, wrinkly and saggy, flashing me gummy smiles—it was an effective strategy as my arousal began to subside.I worked the ball of my thumbs into her sinewy calves and.