” I reminded her, urgently.“Its too hot to wear those stupid tshirts.”“You know the rules,” I reminded her again. “If you’re caught brea...ing the rules I have to issue you with chores and hard work.”“You’re kidding me,”“No,” I insisted, attempting to sound as stern as possible. “There’s some manual labor work to be done up on the farm, we’ll go back there right now and you can do that. No break.”“But sir I can’t.”“Why not?”She hesitated.“I’m pregnant.”I nodded, looking down at her flat stomach.. " That's confusing..." Well think about it while you finish this shift but don't think so hard that you lose concentration on what you're supposed to be doing," Siobhan said as she turned to walk away from the guard post.An hour or more passed while Seamus scanned the unchanging wilderness outside of his watch point until Laura Tyler, one of the orphans his father had rescued and Michelle White along with the man he had just met came to relieve him from his guard shift. The woman and girl were. Mike pulled up the cover of the hot tub and a large bubble of steam came up from it. He went over to a control panel near the edge of the deck like structure and turned some knobs. Lights lit up beneath the water and the water began to bubble and form a thin layer of foam on the top. Then he began to undress. He took his shirt, his shoes and socks and left his pants for last. She just watched him in silence. He removed his pants with his back to her and walked over to the edge. Then took off. .Jack had to be out there somewhere, and I needed to figure out how to meet up with him. As I dashed through a gap in the fire blazing at our entryway, I scooted left to stay out of direct the line of fire, and rolled into a low spot to set up and defend our home.Finally they came. Two sets of four, armed to the teeth, rushed the front door. Without thinking about it, I opened on them, firing at heads in case of flack jackets. My shotgun took three down with two shots, and I re-aimed and kept.