He'd been unhappy at losing Charlene, but happy for her because she had her husband back. Then he'd met Amy, who was mourning the lost chance at Charl...ne's husband Scott. They'd hit it off, and returned to Steve's quarters, where Amy had met Steve's 'sex partners.' They'd had a pleasant enough meal, though there were signs of disquiet among the rest of the girls. At the time, Steve hadn't connected the dots, being far too interested in Amy to notice much else.Steve and Amy had ended up in bed,. That relationship didn’t work out. Nothing noteworthy for here either, but Lisa and I got back in touch and things got naughty. We didn’t ever think of getting back together but had some fun. Mostly we’d meet in Hedge End at an old outdoor warehouse and she’d suck me off late at night. After eighteen months, Martin moved out and was replaced by Andres who had left his gf behind in the US and came to do his PostDoc work, reanimating locusts…. one limb at a time. Cool huh? He and I got on better. Derwen didn't mind me recruiting people to join Juniper Hills but she didn't want me directly soliciting people from Lone Tree, the village on her property. We agreed that if a single man asked I would be free to allow him to move to Juniper Hills and Derwen would provide transport to the mainland for free.My ladies walked me to the wood shop where Erfurth, the indentured wolf gunner and wood worker, greeted us. He proudly told us he had trained a few apprentice woodworkers to construct the. The attentive waiter brought her a martini, which she took a sip of, and said, "if I'm not being too forward, you look a great deal like my husband."Now this was a strange opening line, I thought. If the roles were reversed and I said something like that to a woman I had just met she'd most likely take that as a cue to tell me to get lost. But I'm the long-suffering type, especially when beautiful ladies are involved."Thanks, I suppose," I said noncommittally.Laura smiled and replied, "I'm.