Now,’ holding up the sander for emphasis, ‘I’ve got to clean up my mess before I can start over.’ ‘Husband?’ he asked, looking at her hand...holding the sanding block. ‘Past tense. I lost him in a car wreck three years ago.’ ‘I’m so sorry.’ ‘It’s been tough, but I’m getting past it. You never forget, but time does dull the pain.’ Switching gears, he said ‘Let me guess—you tried to match using the color printed on the label, right?’ Feeling dumb, Paula admitted her mistake. ‘Don’t feel bad—I’ve. Now that we all had a firearm, it was time for us to leave. I planned to order a massive air attack on the Grayly mansion as soon as we returned to the palace.We headed back for the mud room and made it to the top of the stairs when we encountered men with guns. These were all the conventional single-shot pistols that knights habitually carried, and they were no match for our repeating shotguns and revolvers. The king and queen contributed significantly to our escape, but it was the shotguns. I proposed immediately. She took a while, but she accepted.“By the way, in terms of confidences you might not know are confidences,” he continued, “that we’ve only known each other for ten weeks is one. This is going to be my child. That it was conceived before we got married will be plain to everybody. That it was conceived before we even met is something I want known to as few people as possible.”“Certainly. Might I ask, are you planning to have this wedding simply to give the baby your name. Looking at his watch, he estimated he would be there in about five hours.Looking in the mirror he said, "Good luck, Carlos, I think you're going to need it. I'm going to disappear for a while."Carlos Fajardo looked out the window and he could see the huge ship floating over downtown Bogotá. Opening the window, he looked down at his men milling around."Juan, ready all our men, we are going into the hills." Walking back to his desk he picked up his laptop, and went into his bedroom to change.