. and even determined to kill them both and drop their bodies overboard. Bicker! Bicker! Bicker!What stopped me was my aversion to blood ... anyones b...ood. Hers ... his ... mine ... the next-door neighbor ... the man on the street. Blood. I did not handle the red flag of puberty well.It started out well.We left Tolaga Bay rested, refreshed and in harmony ... mostly. I was jealous of my prerogatives. I had spent three days cleaning, tinkering and fixing all the little things that go amiss on a. They carried a few of her things up to their room. Rick only owned the clothes on his back. Once inside the room, Rick pulled his boots off again and his jeans to massage his leg. Erin hung up her things then went down to bring up another load. "I don't want anyone breaking in and stealing my things," she said after having a young man carry her boot and shoe racks deposited her things outside the room. She correctly assumed that Rick would not like it if the man saw him in his briefs and. ”The two men with Rich, Ed and Daniel, both sat there with their mouths sagging open. Rich turned red but he isn’t ready to concede defeat. He hasn’t managed to embarrass me which was undoubtedly his intention. But he’s certainly getting a lot more than he bargained for. He may even have thought he was winning this little tug of war.Come to think of it, maybe he is! Some guys pay good money for a view like they have now.Rich grinned and said, “I can’t be certain from here, Brooke. There could. We had our end of week wrap up meeting with Rod at three o'clock Friday to go over all the latest developments in the case. We gave him the ups and downs of the week in one neat thirty minute package."Good work, I look forward to hearing about all the progress you're making, soon." He looked us each in the eye. "Very soon. Is there anything else going on I need to know about?"I hesitated a little too long. He cocked his head to one side, holding my eye without speaking. I glanced at Henslith.