He is lean, tanned and his hair is rather long but very well styled. He is carrying a diet soda and I notice he has long elegant fingers with rather l...ng but spotlessly clean fingernails."Ok Michele there is obviously something very wrong with you," he says without any preamble."You didn't give me the all clear signal and you seem not have a clue who I am," he sips his drink and raises his brows waiting for my reply."All clear?" I ask."When we are meeting in drab; rubbing a hand through our. Each captain contacted her friends to invite them to be crew members of a force designed to rid the galaxy of pirates. There turned out to be no problem in recruiting, in fact, each ship picked up more than the minimum necessary crew (Brenda and Bruce wondered how much the availability of the new cosmetics helped sell the project). This was good, because they needed enough surplus people to crew any newly-captured pirate vessels.Once the new people were all aboard the various ships, they jumped. Why had she gone with May, had she fallen in love with him? Robert groaned, no woman should have this sort of hold on a man he thought his body trembling with frustration. Damn her, damn her to hell, he thought as he tore off the St Christopher and opened the bottle.She raced upstairs, having found the down stairs rooms empty, coming to an abrupt stop at the opened bedroom door.He was sitting by the partially opened French windows, in just a pair of shorts, an ashtray over flowing with. Waiting – wondering how long it would take. Listening to sounds of running and shouting, then thuds sounding like bodies dropping on the floor. Listening to ourselves breathe. Listening to the thumping of our own hearts – and each others’. Then total quiet – except for our own breathing and hearts thumping. Total quiet. Maybe it worked. ‘Should we go check?’ I timidly suggested. ‘Yeah, time to find out if we’re heroes – or idiots.’ ‘Wait, we should have some kind of gas masks. Here, let’s soak.