With a chuckle, Tina had pulled her down, and then rolled on top of her.  “What do you think they’re going to do, baby?” Tina asked with a wink, and then began kissing Bette down from her neck, sucking on her breasts, and then nipping on her navel.  “Mmm… I think I know just how to loosen you up,” she whispered just before she gave Bette a long lick over the opening of her core, slick with lake water and Bette’s delicious expression.  With a moan, Tina began circling her with the flat of her tongue….

“Bette?  Bette?” Tycho’s worried voice and slight shaking of her shoulders brought her back to the present.

Bette felt she’d calmed down, but blew out a disappointed breath at the interruption of her calming memory.  She gave Tycho a baleful look as she opened her eyes.

“I’m okay, I’m okay,” she told Tycho, and then smiled at him in an effort to convince him.  She motioned him to return to his seat.

Tycho saw her color was returning, but he continued to look back at her with a worried expression.  What was that about?  Everything else tonight barely registered on her face, but this bit about the extraction plan and Spencer seemed to have literally shook her.  Why that story?

“Just a massive headache, Tycho,” Bette said, with a smile, “I get it sometimes.”

“Yeah?” he asked, eyeing her doubtfully, “Are you seeing a doctor about it?”

“I am, yes,” Bette said, adding vaguely, “A lot of doctors for this and that.  You know, aches and pains…”

She continued in as bright a tone as she could manage, “Okay, so please continue.”

“Umm.. okay,” Tycho resumed, hesitantly, “Anyway, things suddenly quieted down after that incident concerning Spencer.  A week later,  I’d overheard your name more than once during discussions my client was having with other members of the core group.  It seemed like they were discussing this guy being really interested in getting hold of you, but that the core group was figuring out to get him to agree and follow their own agreement with you that no one would move on you.”

He drank from the glass again, before continuing, “but from what I could piece together, it sounded like that this guy had agreed only under certain conditions.”