What will he do now? Carmen tried to read the Sloops Captain's mind, as if understanding a strangers mind was natural to her, and in some ways it was....She had honed that talent to a fine edge through hundreds of hours of watching her father and uncle bartering for cargos all over the European Atlantic, she was only now, since having taken command of her own ship, beginning to understand the intrigues of a mind that wanted her and her crew dead.The Sloop, now less than two hundred yards away,. No matter his feelings for her, there was no way he would allow Kim to take a taxi home after a medical procedure.Fully convinced that he would regret it, he said, “I’ll take you home.”“Why, thank you, Dan. You are such a sweetheart,” Kim said. She looked at the woman on the other side of Dan and said, “Do you see what I mean?”“That’s real nice of him,” the woman said.“I tell you, his current girlfriend is such a lucky woman. If I didn’t like Sue so much and if I was ten years younger, I’d. She has no objection as he moves his hands up to explore the front of her tube top. She might even be whispering, 'Yes George, yes.'George had found a box of poker chips, and we had agreed we would start with 50 points each and play until someone ran out. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. No one breathed a word about strip poker, though looking back I'll bet George was thinking about it. I know it crossed my mind briefly. I wonder, could the thought also have come into my wife's mind? Yet. "I guess so." Great!" He said, suddenly slipping a ring on to my left ring finger.He saw my eyes go wide at the sight of the large stone sparkling away onmy finger and quickly reassured me "It's not real diamond, just cubiczirconia. Still, it wasn't cheap, so look after it for me so I can giveit to a girl I'm interested in once we get through all this." I don't know, Nick, after all I've been through and will go through, Imay just have to keep it. It's... well, honestly it's beautiful. .