I am not talking about the tickets. I have been rewarded with your friendship. I did not know I needed a friend like you in my life until I met you. I...will be honest with you. I am going to miss you so much next week. I really don't want you to leave. We have built such a strong bond. You are almost like the son I never had." My stomach dropped. I knew I had completely ruined the moment, referring him to a son. I wanted to go jump off a cliff. I quickly looked away in embarrassment. Colt:. He called it a weekend.The following weekend, it was time to install Mindy.Upstairs, he opened the head box and removed the hood and pipe from Mindy's head."Gaaaa!" she gasped. "Is it over?" she panted. "Are you letting me go now?" Her breath from speaking filled the room with the odor of raw sewage."No," he said. "It's now time for your final, and permanent, installation." Oh God! What are you going to do to me now?" I'm going to do exactly what you wanted originally." What's that? I forget.". " That's what I'm trying to find out." What's a Captain." An officer in charge of a company." So this dispatch goes to What." I don't know." That's the Lieutenant."Saul demonstrated a real talent for comic timing. I'm not sure the Duke appreciated our humor."Minstrel Lincoln," he said when I was called into his chamber. "My rider has returned from Mule Crossing and I have bad news." She's not dead." No. She's been traded south." Traded? South?" It seems her master in Mule Crossing had no use. I brushed my long curly hair back from my face as he looked in my direction. He was gorgeous. Taller than I had first thought, about 6"4 maybe, with full head of brown hair. He looked to be in his late thirties. I gave him a small smile and turned to gaze back out the window. Out the corner of my eye I could seem him getting closer to where I was sitting. Good, I thought, sit close to me. He finally stopped beside me."Is this seat taken?" I heard his deep voice say. I hadn't expected him to sit.