She winced at the sound and cringed as blood began running from his nose."Stop!" she cried, sitting up in the bed and covering herself with the sheet.... "It's not his fault!"Barclay ignored her, enraged at what he saw. "I trusted you, man!" Barclay shouted, sticking an angry finger in Bruiser's face.Bruiser snorted. "Well maybe if you weren't so busy sucking face with your bimbo over there..." he said, jerking his head toward Kaija who stood in the doorway wide-eyed."Fuck you!" I've got news for. I'm sure he saw me touching mom but he didn't say anything. I know from overhearing snippets of conversation that his ex, Sarah, had quite a varied sex life with multiple partners and I was hoping that as long as I didn't get in his way with mom he's be ok with anything we did. A few weeks ago I noticed a change in her. She seemed to be on her phone texting/messaging a lot and she was wearing less and less around the house. She would let my hands linger a second longer before slapping them away. “Jason, Thomas offered to teach us multichannel telepathy if required. He has sent us a multichannel telepathic recorder to use on scout ships to see if they pick up anything on other channels and if so, the attached AI will learn the language and implant it in us. The scout ships have shown us the planets of the Azloc are very heavily fortified and defended. So far, we have not picked up any telepathic communications.“We will soon start sending intelligence teams to the planets of the. "I'm so sorry, Rose Ann. I should have known better. It won't happen again." See that it doesn't!" When she sees my shame, she relents a little. Laying her palm against my face, she says, "Look, Randy, I'm sorry to sound so harsh but if you feel free to make affectionate gestures like that, it's just a matter of time before you do it in the wrong place and in front of the wrong person. While it might cause you a red face, it could cost me my career. Don't you understand that?" I do now. Like I.