Home. But first...

I smirked and Diamond rolled her eyes. “Yes, yes, your potency was never in doubt,” she said.

“I should go home, I guess.”

Diamond frowned, but nodded. My car shouldn’t be here overnight. People would gossip. “But I need a shower, first,” I said, smiling in response to the grin which broke out on her face.

As the water started flowing over us, preventing anyone from listening, even if Jasmine were to wake up, or someone were to plant a bug

“Well?” she asked, even as we soaped one another up and she quite deliberately teased me.

“Kate’s got some connection to Batman. Don’t know what, but when I shook her hand, I suddenly knew a lot about his stuff. Maybe she’s a supplier, an ally, or an enemy, but that’s not heat we need right now.”

Diamond was taken aback, which she showed by pulling away and posing to give me a great view and her a moment to think.

I smirked and groped her delicious ass, but then she spoke. “Just Kate? Not her father?”

“Just Kate.”

“Huh. What else?”

“Chloe and Kali are tagged. No surprises, but Kali’s real resistant and Chloe less so.”

Diamond nodded as her hand fell to my dick. “Low priority, but...thank you.”

“Always,” I said with a gentle kiss.

“And our primary goal?”

“Penelope’s up over 60,” I said.

“Damn. That was a good night.”

“And I think she’ll come back to me for more,” I said, explaining about the checkpoints.

Diamond almost slipped as she celebrated in the wet shower. I caught her and we fell out. Fortunately, no one was hurt and Diamond was on top of me, so after a quick health and safety check/chat, she slipped down and we enjoyed our own little celebration.

When she was filled and lying atop me, I managed to ask, “And you and Jasmine?”

“She’s a lot nicer these days...I want her to be happy, even if that’s not with you. Is that...okay?”

“Of course it is. Just be careful, all right?”

“Always.”

The trip home was boring, but as I collapsed into my bed, I considered what was next. I had three credits, I was almost to Appearances Don’t Matter, which was my next goal. Kat had another date with Jewelz on Saturday, which I finally might actually be able to do something about, unless something went wrong again. Sunday I should be totally free. Maybe I’d put Rapetoy on the budget question? I was sure Andre would have news soon on his own investigation. But, really, I sort of needed a rest. I’d been going full blast for a long time, even if a lot of it had been sexy fun...even that took energy. I was starting to get run down and miss stuff.

The Crime Doctor business was still hanging on, but he was out of town for another week at least. No special movie nights this week, or for a while, as I’d frontloaded the ones I was interested in. But Peyton should be getting out this week and I needed to drop off her cell phone, arrange for her to meet Diamond and Andre, then Jasmine. Firefly was the next major goal, she could handle a lot if I got her set up as a ‘superhero.’

With that done, my brain finally relaxed and I fell asleep.