He took off his cowboy hat and placed it on my head. He didn’t say a word, as he put a finger under my chin and more or less, forced me to look up. ...ven in the darkened room, I could tell there was a seriousness about Steve and a passion in his eyes. He leaned forward and planted a soft kiss on my lips, an easy going, “I like you,” type of kiss. I dropped the bed sheet and practically melted away. Steve moved his finger to the middle of my chest, where he made a small circling motion. I took a. Somehow I managed to start thinking again, and with that came the natural question. ‘Where’s Sam?’ I looked around but couldn’t see him in the restaurant or the close by kids’ corner. John smiled and said ‘It’s just me, Sam’s with his grandparents today’. ‘Oh’ was the only answer that came to me. ‘You see, since Sam cannot have contact with his mother, I try to make sure that he meets her parents once in a while. Right now we’ve settled on him staying with them a full weekend every month. It. She looked amazing sitting on the bed. We locked eyes and she slowly raised one hand and pointed her finger toward me then turned it around and gave me the come here notion. I quickly obeyed. I walked over to the bed and she reached out and grabbed my hand and pulled me toward her. When my face was within inches of hers she kissed me lightly on the lips. “You are so beautiful!” she said. Then she planted a kiss on my lips that could shake the heavens. I reached down with one hand and gently. "Perhaps a day. Two at the most. It will depend on how far from the present settlement that we appear. Also we will need to see about boats," I told him."Look for keelboats. Those flat bottom rafts can be hard to steer and are easily swamped," he advised us before we all rose, and Seamus and I departed.Back at our quarters, we held a meeting to see who would be going. I explained what we had proposed to General Clark and asked who was willing to go with me. Seamus naturally raised his hand, but.