Sorry to be here so late...in this country they suddenly shut off the electricity and they do it so suddenly, or with a spike, that despite my using a suppressor and battery to keep going, it shut my pc and since then I've been struggling to get it to work - while coming on line was totally impossible.

My being here means I have found a solution and now I'll spend tomorrow fixing the hard drive (experimented on another hard drive).

As for this chapter...did I understand it correctly(?) he tried to make a romatic comment and she absolutely squashed him? Is she really that much of a prude (I cannot see her as one of these neo-fems who are actually anti-fems) or is it that emotions scare her? She did insist there can be nothing between them, which is usually what is said when we do not want to acknowledge the possibility....because it is becoming a possibility, something like the first glow of the sun as it secretly tries to creep up over the horizon.

Hmm...tell her that strategy demands she encourages him so as to strengthen him as her ally - despite her not wanting to love him.

lol, tis sure funny how characters always seem to think they can hide their feelings from their readers... it never works, we are supreme BS artists and can see through them