As is common around Navy ports, they would hook up with guys who needed girls, and in return for being taken care of they took care of their men. When...the guys went out to sea and stopped paying their way, they would go get new boyfriends. Eventually, if they were lucky, they'd find a guy who would marry them and they'd be set for life, along with all the rugrats they'd popped out along the way.I made them a better offer for long-term security than they had, and they took me on as their latest. Of a hundred-and-sixty-plus, she thought to herself, yet, somehow, the ability to balance a bunch of stuff eludes me. Miranda Inoue was an unusual woman in many ways: having just turned twenty-two, she had already gotten her Ph. D. from Caltech in experimental physics and was now dealing mostly with astrophysics and advanced mathematics. Miranda was as unique physically as she was mentally: she was willowy in appearance and graceful. Miranda’s Asian heritage was living up to the stereotype.. Chris was Australian and had always had a passion for fitness. He inherited the first branch of the gym, a little gym in the suburbs of Melbourne, when he was twenty-one as his father came into ill health. But Chris had a talent for business and, by his twenty-fourth birthday, had prospered so much that he could afford to open another branch of the gym. The company rose rapidly with him at the helm and new locations of "Johnson’s Gym" sprang up all over the country with great success. Now he. He knew that there was a bathing facility in the back, but it was not seen upon entry.She sighed, leaned against his arm and whispered "It's perfect."Placing their luggage near the bed, he turned to her and pulled her into an embrace. Some might call it smothering and oppressive, but she felt warmed and comforted. Feeling the love that he was giving her, she melted into his strong chest. His moustache tickled her ear as she turned her head to kiss him.They maintained their embrace, moving only.