"Dad, I'm thirty years old and yes I believe we love each other. Our relationship is a lot more than just the sex. How strong our feelings are remain ...o be seen but I want my child to have a mother and a father who loves him or her." I chuckled, we didn't know if it would be a boy or a girl yet."Mary, that's Mrs. Bradley asked me to invite you and Dad over for dinner next Sunday. It's to talk about the wedding. Can you be there?" Of course," my Dad said. "I have to say though that you look a. . do we do about this?” Eriksen asked hesitantly.“I’ll tell you what we’re going to do,” Nazka replied, staring him down with her yellow eyes. “You’re going to open that damned door, and then I’m going to jump us both back to Borealis, where I’m going to scrap this junker and live off the spoils for the rest of my days. You can join me, or you can take the Black Claw. I don’t have time to bring her close enough that she can ride the wake.”“Or how about you take your shuttle back to the Black. He'd forced his green broken horse right through the thin mesquite rails of the corral fence and lit a shuck under him! He'd ridden that horse into the ground the first day out of Uvalde, then he'd stolen another one from a nearby ranch.The injun's second stolen horse had given out on the evening of the next day and Injun Joe had then fled on foot. Jim had finally caught up with him on the third day of the long chase. He'd bought the mule from a ranch in the vicinity to pack the injun in on.The. It is the same as with the cell phone behavior, an 'I don't think you're important enough to pay you the same consideration you're paying me' kind of thing. Luckily, these types of people are easy to discover as they're also usually the same kind of folks that think it's ok to treat their servers like boot scum. So they're not exactly hard to recognize.I had to make a fast break from this man-eater the moment dinner was over. Given time, this Hunting Girl would have had me licking her boots.