" Mark nodded and turned back to the console. Minara pinched the bridge of her nose and paused for a moment. "Um ... Mark? You know you told me you se...sed the female Grojan you had bonded with?He spun back round to face her, eyebrows knitted together. "Yes?" Well I know who she is." You do?" Yes, it's Varna, the captain of this ship." Minara noticed his frown deepen at her words."The murdering pirate who usurped the crown and is now locked in the city jail?" Yes, the very same." Minara had. ” Emily schooled her features into something like genuine ignorance and looked back at Dixie, lifting her shoulder in a nonchalant shrug. She hoped to hell her act and the general alcohol buzz would give her some credibility, even though at the moment she felt as if the truth was emblazoned in giant neon letters on her forehead. To her relief, Lacey picked up the conversation thread, albeit not in a direction Emily would have chosen. “Honestly, Ems, I don't understand why you two aren't a. I got scared and guessed on what he was thinking and immediately turned around and was facing him. I pulled up my undie and told him that I want to go out. He immediately pulled up his undie and both of us finished our bath without even looking at each other or even speaking a single word and went back to our rooms.I did not go to college that day and spent my whole day in the room thinking what has happened that morning. In the evening when my roommates returned from classes, I went with one. Law enforcement is one of the professions that generates more divorces than most others. Some of that is because the spouse gets tired of wondering if her husband - or wife - will live through the shift and come home at night. Some is because of extended missions. And then there’s the phenomenon resulting from people living and working together closely and putting their lives in each other’s hands. When you know your partner is literally willing to take a bullet to protect you, relationships.