" She turned and headed out thedoor. If procedure frowned on shouting across the bridge, it frownedeven harder on interrupting the grand admiral's sle...p by intercom. Onespoke to her in person, or one did not speak to her at all.She didn't know what the grand admiral did with her long hours she spentin her personal office she had constructed soon after the empressgranted her the esteemed rank of grand admiral. She was given command ofthe vast fleet of the empire. 'Perhaps', Julian thought to. " she took a few breaths, then continued talking as we strolled. "We have tried to introduce her to suitable young men, but she has little patience with them, and none have tried to woo her past the second or third date." It sounds like you and her have differing opinions as to the definition of the word suitable." I remarked.Ariel smiled up at me. "Evidently so." She led me into a cozy parlor type room. "Brian and I were hoping that she would settle down with someone and give us a grandchild. Are you agreeable to that?”Neither of us could speak. We just looked at Aphrodite with our eyes wide and our mouths hanging open.“But you can’t be serious!” Sherry gasped finally. “You want me to get pregnant? My god, my mother will strangle me! And Bobby too when she finds out he was the one who got me that way!”Aphrodite laughed, “Your mother will only know about the pregnancy if you choose to tell her.”Sherry comes back with, “Yeah, maybe for five months, tops! She’s not stupid or blind! How. They had learned to get along just fine without Mom. It was just shortly after she had lost her virginity to the football captain, who was a senior, and she and Bob were going about business as usual with a cookout by the pool, but Missy was aware of him and herself in a way she never had been. They swam and joked around with each other and she asked him to put suntan oil on her back, and then turned over to see if he would just keep going and put it on her stomach. She realized she was.