It was well past midnight but her father had insisted that she stay up while he “made preparations.” He had been on the phone for over an hour mak...ing dozens of calls -- about what, she couldn’t be quite sure. She had only been in the room for a few minutes and he was just wrapping up a call.After the ruckus at the restaurant, emergency vehicles of all types had swarmed the premises. Based on Sara and Chiu’s state of undress they were herded immediately to the nearest ambulance. They were asked. She was prepared to die protecting her shipmates, her ship, and her family, but not willingly. To die while killing the Sa’arm, not for offing some pissant Caligula, was a worthy sacrifice. She sighed. No matter how hard the system tried, a jackass or two always seemed to make it through the sieve.She thought back to Petra and Lucas, her first dependents, and when she turned fourteen, her first lovers. They’d snuggled in her bed, lay quiet and still, and at the stroke of midnight had wakened. She replied back with Brad Pitt’s picture and said you too!!! I make her laugh a lot, I’ve a very good sense of humor, If I’m really on a roll. I used to flirt with her when we were alone on the phone, but tease her in a conference call; she wouldn’t mind much & would have some nice comebacks too. Her accent was so sexy, if you talk to her on the phone, you would know she could mesmerize you with her voice.I used to tease her that I would come to Brazil & kidnap her & keep her all to myself.. I kissed my way down her belly, plunged my tongue into her navel and bypassed her forest to enjoy the silkiness of her inner thighs, my hand creeping around to her buttocks, the first place I had touched her, slyly, discreetly and fully clothed. My touch conveyed my thought and she sighed my name.“Veec,” she whispered. “Cherie.”That was my cue to move into her epicenter, her dark forest that seemed to sing to me with tropical birds as my tongue lapped at her beautiful juices. Monique spread her.