Katie came over to me and looked up shyly. I leaned down and kissed her lightly and then picked her up and carried her into the bedroom with Bobbie pa...dding along behind. I placed her on the bed and stripped off my shirt. Katie's big eyes roamed over me, actually seeing a grown male body as if for the first time. She swallowed and hugged my waist, her face buried in my belly. I stroked her hair and waited for her to signal that she was ready to move on. Bobbie wasn't reluctant all and stripped. .I know I can do this, I thought as I strapped my short sword onto my hip. When I was younger I beat that hobgoblin with simply a stick I picked up. At first I remembered being afraid, but after hitting him a couple times I realized he was afraid too. That gave me the strength to fight with power and rage. I traveled deeper and deeper into the forest. First with a dagger, now with my sword. Defeating monster after monster without a scratch. They are afraid of us as the rest of the town is. “It’s true isn’t it? They take no responsibility for their actions.”Emily was really annoyed by the topic, her mother always brought up this stuff, she didn’t understand why she would not stop bringing this up. She got it the first time and the second and the third and so on. The trues was, she too was mad at her friends for leaving her alone, they hadn’t called since she was caught, but she would not confess this to her mother.Her trail of thoughts was harshly interrupted by a stinging pain in. ”“Too much, too fast,” I said. “I’m not sure we can handle all of this.”“We can, if you’re willing,” Elyse said.“If you say it, Ms. Clarke, you’re fired!” I warned.“Fire me! You have to be a full-time CEO. There isn’t any choice. If Cindi gets bogged down in this BLS acquisition, sales are going to suffer. Julia has to focus on managing the consulting practice and the development team, not to mention her design work. I have more work than my team can do in the short term. We’ll manage, but.