He told her it was for luck."How sweet, now you stop bothering the captain."Martha said."Yes, ma'am," Thomas replied, he sat down and started shining ...p his Indian arrowhead.Duke called Frank, over to the captains cabin."Frank, do you hear that up ahead?" Yes! he said.Duke looked on, with a frightened look in his eyes."Those are rapids near the West Bank," he said. The water must have dropped some since the last time we made this trip."Frank raised his right arm and laid his hand upon Dukes. He dragged his nails from the small of her back, following her spine all the way to her shoulder blades, getting a tight "squeee!" and a sexy little wriggle for his efforts.She broke away from his clinch and took two staggering steps back, her mouth open as she panted, her practiced tongue running over her fangs. He marveled anew at how natural they seemed in her mouth, almost as if she had been born with them. His own chest was heaving as his body demanded more oxygen for what it knew was. . and that she'd looked after him while he had been incapable of doing it himself. He felt he owed her a great debt. Actually, he felt he owed her his very life. Moreover, as he lay on his matt staring at her in the early morning dawn he wondered how he could ever repay her.Beecher watched as her eyes opened, and she looked over at him. She smiled timidly at him, carefully reached out, and touched his right arm. She said something softly to him, and he guessed she was asking how his arm felt.. Shocked and dismayed, her mother had had packed her boyfriend out of the house and her daughter off to the convent. The expected immersion in religious piety had not occurred, however. Her rapidly developing daughter had been the innocent but unresisting partner for a succession of older and worldlier classmates. But the tender but sinful embraces of other budding, young sexpots did not satisfy her. The girl was seeking a father figure but after her brief experience with her mother's boyfriend,.