We had one more round and sure enough, after another deep kiss from Steve, Claire suggested we head up to the room.I settled the tab as this stranger ...nd my girlfriend continued to make out in the booth, their hands beginning to roam more liberally with each passing moment. We then all headed for the elevator and entered it alone.As soon as the doors closed, Steve pulled Claire close to him and stood behind her as he began to kiss her neck slowly. She then gasped as he ran his hands up her. And to think, I saved her great-grandfather, I believe it was her great-grandfather at the very least. The family Belisarius owes me a debt, much as the family Hall owed me a debt. And so, from one I get a navigator, the other this ship I suppose, ha ha!” She shook her head.“I still have a hard time fathoming the chronology of your life, Vynn,” Jon said. “but that’s for another time, for another dinner. I believe I know how to cut your becalming red tape, Vynn. Is it much rudeness to go to a. “I would suggest you don’t make any trips any time soon.”“Am I a suspect, Detective?” Bridget asks, feigning innocence.“I haven’t written you off as one,” he answers quickly.“If it’s an alibi you need, I’m sure my secretary is more than enough,” she offers.“Don’t worry,” he says, “I’ll have a word with her. But if you truly have nothing to hide you’ll cooperate fully with the investigation.”“Of course, Detective,” she says with a smile. “I wouldn’t want anything to get slowed down because of. Wrapping her in my arms, such a frail girl, I assured her I wouldn’t. “You’re stuck with me, honey.” Eventually Amelia cried, some of the poisonous sorrow oozing out of her.Still, recovery wasn’t fast. I noticed it in her music. Amelia began to play mournful songs on the piano. She sang less and the songs were of loss and sorrow, sung with such sadness and agony I had a lump in my throat. Her remarkable voice expressed such haunting it made me go cold. And even the beauty, the perfect clarity.