What about the kid?" They were talking as if I was no-account. "He can have some after we git done and then we'll make sure he is the one to shoot the...."They turned and looked at me. They should have been paying attention to me before they started talking. I was sitting there and I had that old Navy converted .44 pointed right at them. "Nope." I stood and with my weapon on the two men I took out my knife and slashed the bonds of the woman and was heading for the old man. I stumbled. Christ, I. Soroya and Jacob's oldest, John or Keoni, was well established on the mainland with his own family. They doubted that they would ever be able to afford to come out, at least as a family. They hadn't seen them for years. It was usually the case where Soroya and Jacob had to travel there if they wanted to visit their grandchildren."Well, if they are anything like you two and Kahoku or Lanikai, they would probably fit in just fine. Of course," continued Allison, "I'm not talking about everything. It takes me hours before I give up and start entering nonsense.”Doug rearranged himself in the passenger seat, leaning against the door and resting his upper thigh on the console his partner abandoned. “So how’d your date with the commissioner’s gal pal go?”Em frowned. “It wasn’t a date.”“But you were pretending it was, so you were both openly flirting. She’s certainly attractive. You put all the elements together and the gears start turning on their own.”“There are no cogs cranking here. My. "I laughed at that and as Lindie made it back with the cloth to wipe my chest she wondered at my laughing. I simply said, "Michelle's awake." Oh," Lindie said with a light blush on her face. "That wasn't the plan."Michelle held up her arm and looked at the thin white string on her arm. "That's what makes babies inside of a girl, right dad."As Lindie swiped up over the trails I left on my abdomen, I answered, "Yes Mickey."With any pretense of hiding our secret gone, Lindie said, "Let's clean up.