Not wishing to distract Laura, I content myself with observing, cultivating an apparent aversion to asking stupid questions.“Any questions, Captain?...�� Laura smiles, seeing through my pretense.“Backing down, out the whole distance of the channel, Captain?”“See these red dots? These are an electronic trail we made coming in. I’m going to retrace our steps going out. This last dot, is where we were last known to be, when we were set adrift.From there to here, where we grounded, and where we are, is. Here we were in the middle of a field, making out like two crazed teens, in the pouring rain. The image that gave me made me chuckle, I pulled away giggling. ‘Not here, not now… again’, I laughed as I saw his eyes form into a really cute puppy dog face. I brought his face down towards me, kissing each eye before running past him towards my house. After about five full minutes of running, I stopped at the end of my drive, Tom was standing in my door way. His shirt was off and on the floor, his. But I don't want to get in the way of what you and Sally have. You need to be able to concentrate on fathering children and not worrying about me. So let's never see each other again, OK? xxx oooo"And that was the end of Rebecca as an active presence in his life. Jason missed her at first, and he never forgot her, but he was also relieved.Eve had been treated the same as anyone else the whole time she was growing up, but now she was treated very differently. She was the one who was sent out on. We spent a week making sure that all of the new people were fully familiar with the way HHH operated, and we spent another month making sure that the trucks were going to hold up under the kind of work we did.Once that Mary, Billy, and I were fully satisfied with the whole operation, I called the woman in Atlanta to tell her that we were now ready to tape the commercial whenever she was ready. More effusive thanks and she said that she would get back to me with the details as soon as they were.