“I am Jenny Tamehorn. Who are you?”“Look, lady, I don’t want any trouble.”“It annoys me to no end when people don’t answer questions. Li...e who are you to ignore my question and ask your own. Right now, I have your ass strapped down and you have the gall to say that?” I asked him, putting emphasis on my anger in the last word. “Sorry,” he said subdued. “I’m Jack, but everyone calls me Luca.”“Hey there Jack,” I said wondering why he had told me his nickname. “Hi,” he said. I thought it comical. ”He shifted and nodded and then squatted on the other side of the body, “murder. If you turn him over you can see the single knife wound in his chest.”The man looked like a sailor, “did he have a birth and do we have a witness?”The sergeant glanced out the dock, “he came from the Gold Sea Swallow. We have two dock workers that saw his first officer do the deed.”I stood, “have you sent for a wagon to take him to the morgue?”He nodded as he stood, “I was waiting for an officer. We have orders not. The daughters on the other hand take a little bit longer, the first dehydrate and start shrivel, it takes less than an hour, its a slow painful way to die, eventually they do catch fire and burn slowly to death.She stares at me, I take a seat across from her watching her, we stare at each other for several minutes, I see the first signs of dawn approaching, I know she has an internal clock that is warning her, she starts to look more and more nervous, I say nothing."I thought you had. He was so disappointed I wouldn’t leave with him it nearly broke my heart. Nah, I was just amused. Last summer I would have bestowed on him the gift of my company, not because he deserved it, but because it would have been fun and, why not. My Father was delighted I was having such a good time. He saw a possible match. He was so seriously deluded. When I returned to England, I reported in to Jeff. ‘I met Prince Charming at the ball.’ ‘How fortunate for you, and especially for him.’ ‘Why would I.