I stopped and asked if I could help them. They told me that they were looking for the Post Road."If you'll ride to that rise," I told the young ensign... "you should be able to see it." He kneed his horse and galloped away. "Got any tobacco," I asked the noncom, a small but grizzled veteran who looked at me suspiciously. He dug in his pocket and produced a twist as I stepped behind him, yanked up his chin and cut his throat with Magda's gutting knife. The blood sprayed away and filled the gullies. Up to the deck where a cool Delta breeze was blowing and he handed me a beer and we talked about hs boat while his hands were never far from me. He told me I was beautiful and held me close and then he knelt down and for a moment I thought he was going to propose! Nope, but my shorts came down and then there I was in just my bikini. He turned on the marker lights and then shut off the rest of the lights on the boat and it was kind of amazing. It was a starry enough night and there were lights. ‘Were you cheating on my daughter with my sister,’ she said so angrily. Worse than putting the fear of God in him, she put the fear of an angry, future, mother-in-law in him. ‘How could you to that to Irene? How dare you do that to my daughter? What’s wrong with you for you to take sexual advantage of my poor, sweet, innocent sister?’ Caught red handed, he was so embarrassed. He didn’t dare tell Donna that it was Kathy who made the moves on him and not the other way around. Taking two to tango,. ‘Don’t be, Sweetheart, it was a blessing in disguise,’ I said with an ironic laugh. ‘Here is the thing that I just can’t get past,’ I said, ‘I loved my dad very much, but I felt the weight of the world lift from my shoulders the morning that I got the phone call telling me that he had died. I still live with that guilt., even though I finally could live with the comfort of knowing that he would never hurt anyone else again.’ Marlene lifted my head from my hands, took them into hers, and turned.