Doubt had replaced certainty."Apology accepted. Listen, from what you said, engine trouble scrubbed your plans for the evening, and I don't want to go... home. I don't want to be alone, either. I need company, but I don't consider my stiff-necked family good company, not tonight. I'm so angry with them for the way they've treated my sister that I could spit nails. How about I pick up a pizza and meet you at your house?"She flashed a big smile and nodded. "No anchovies." Deal."As I rang the. Sophia moved to me and unstrapped my armor. She worked with deft fingers, unbuckling the leather straps holding on my pauldrons, breastplate, and backplate. She set the steel armor down, my large breasts exposed to the day. My nipples were hard—Sophia couldn't resist tweaking them. My mischievous lover knelt to unfasten my sword belt. My chainmail loincloth hung from it. “You are excited, Mistress. Is that from spanking my pretty bottom or anticipating fucking the Erinyes?”“Both,” I. As the bellhop took her bag and opened up the room she was beginning to wonder if she should go back to the airport and go home. Inside she found the most luxurious room she had ever seen, this must be the best room in this city she thought, she saw a large bouquet of flowers with a letter attached to it, she smelt the flowers and opened the envelope:"Welcome Sheryl, hope the flight was good, You will find anything you need within this hotel and everything can be charged to your room. Room. It lasted a long, glorious time.Then we went to dinner, also long, also glorious in its own, albeit less intimate, way. We each had a couple of glasses of wine, toasting each other repeatedly. On the way out I ordered another bottle for the cottage.And I told her about Spook.Well, most of it. I edited out the part where he was DEFCONTROL; in this version I'd happened across him surfing the 'Net. But the rest of it was as it had gone, beginning with the misidentified hack.As I'd known it would.