”“So will your profits and activities,” Eli pointed out. “With new engines, rather than each trip taking decades, you can make multiple stops ...elling products from one world to the next. You can also carry more profitable items, including perishables, which benefits everyone. That’s how fortunes are made. You’ll make more trips, carrying more goods and build local markets while picking up more wares to entice other worlds. You don’t make fortunes by quibbling over necessary expenses. You do it. We need to talk this through.’ I pleaded. That seemed to calm him down a little, and, reluctantly, he sat back down next to me. ‘Look, Oliver, you know that my parents are against abortions. They’d never let me do it. And…I’m pretty sure I don’t want to, either. I don’t want to murder my own child.’ He took a deep breath, clearly upset. ‘Can we, just, talk about it later?’ He asked, ruffling his hair with his hand. I used to think it was so hot when he did that. Now, I felt…nothing. There was. I turned my head gently and kissed her forehead as she turned towards me a little.Robyn sighed contentedly. "You Irishmen are so nice," she said quietly. "The last animal I went out with would have had my drawers over the lamp shade by now. In fact, he'd probably be on his first post-orgasmic damned cigarette!"The thought conjured up was so ridiculous that we both laughed. I shifted myself slightly and ran my hand down her back as I kissed her properly this time. She opened her lips and I ran. ”With a smile and an arm slap, she went back to the kitchen returning with our lunch which turned out to be pizza! As we ate the ground beef, bacon, and onion pizza she talked about what she’d been doing and the gossip around town. After about an hour of sitting with Anna, storm clouds rolled in and it began to get dark.I paid her for lunch and walked my horse over to the stable where I ran into Giuseppe who was on his way to see Jorge.“Afternoon, Giuseppe. Can you meet me at the restaurant.