I just don’t want to scare him off. Can you understand that?” “But mom, he has a lot of money. He needs to cut you in.” "It doesn't work that ...ay, April." I put my hands on her shoulders and gave her an optimistic shake. “It’s not the end of the world. Just give it a little time and things will get better. I promise." Jake came through the front door. April looked to him and then rose in frustration. She turned back to me. "I'm tired of your promises." She then stormed off, going upstairs.. "That's what we did. We stayed under the heavy structure, walking bent over on the dry ground to avoid having to wade in the murky water under the dock. Soon we had moved at least a quarter mile away from the point of the initial attack. We were just as far from our ship as we had been before, but it was reasonably certain that the people who'd been firing at us couldn't know our exact position.Then again, we didn't know theirs, either."If we stayed under here and kept going, farther around the. “My name’s Sherry Andrews, and yours? This hurts me so much the asshole is going to kill me and has put your life on the line, too!” She put both her hands to her face as the tears poured forth.Damn it, the morale among my troops was weakening and I had never allowed that to happen! “Listen to me, Sherry.” I barked in command mode. ”You are one of mine now, my name is Gunny, and I do not condone or accept failure or defeat! You will not die on my watch, I will not allow it! Do you understand. I didn’t watch them once they were safe on shore, just went below and dug out the Ludo board.When Gillian took Karen home in the early evening, she was frowning a little and gave me an odd look, but said goodnight pleasantly as Karen insisted on giving me a hug and a kiss on the cheek.At the weekend, we were slap-bang in the middle of an anticyclone, and the jet-stream was to the north, so temperatures were in the thirties and I for one was dripping with sweat. Not much point in sailing without.