“I missed you.”She was silent on the line. “I’m sorry Jacob. You’re the most important thing in the world to me and hurting you isn’t what...I want.”He shifted through traffic, his mood now beginning to sour. “I want companionship,” he said grumpily as he drove. “I want you, but not just the physical. If you can check in and out without considering me in that decision, what are we doing?”Jacob understood he probably stood in the wrong unloading emotionally onto her. Aurora did have her. Roberta's healing tongue had not caused those cuts and blisters to disappear. The little girl would need several days of rest.The grateful villagers willingly provided her with shoes and other clothing. Roberta was once again offered much finery to cover her own nudity but she refused with as much grace and gratitude as she could muster. There was obvious disapproval and Paula hoped she would be fit to travel before the men returned. Although Roberta was a very strong young woman, even she. " Million?" He said almost speechless.We fought till dinner time and the general started to see things more my way. If he were to take over a colony, I wanted him to cultivate the whites not kill them. When we got back I said, "If you resent me making love to your daughter I will leave now with a smile for her sake. Is that your wish?"We stayed still for a few minutes then quietly he said, "No." As we got out of the car Chessa ran to him to see if there had been bloodshed. Dimuna ran to me and. "I never dated an employee," I said."Okay, how do you feel about dating guys you just met?" he asked."I have done that a few times," I said."Well I'm not an employee yet, so how about we go to a piano bar I know on the mainland?" EZ asked."What kind of music does the Piano bar play," I asked."What do you like? Better still what do you hate?" he asked."I hate fucking Jazz," I said."I hate fucking Jazz to," he said. "So how about it."The Piano bar was in what used to be the dining room of a.