I was in a traditional sailing club in the islands. We made our own boats from scratch and raced them from island to island.”“That is so cool,”...said Janie. “We can have a whole fleet!”“One boat at a time, Admiral Scarlatti,” I laughed. “I have a feeling it takes a lot of work to build a boat from scratch.”“It does,” Patricia agreed. “But we have a lot of people with a lot of time on their hands. You’d be surprised how fast it will go.”“All right, it’s settled,” Janie said definitively. . He held me tight against his chest. I started to cry.David"There is no need for tears. I have been doing some thinking about us. It has dredged up some past memories, which has made me a little agitated. I feel if we are to continue, then I need to come clean about my past marriage. You need to know what happened and why I am some what gun shy," He said.I looked at him through teary eyes with a confused look on my face.He smiled at me, "Come see what I have to show you."He took my hand and we. I still held her high up her back in an armlock, unwilling to let her go for even a moment. Her tiny hand gripped my fingers in mutual need of reassurance which I gave with a gentle squeeze on her fingers. She responded in kind, probably out of reflex as I imagined her to be too far gone in the throes of passion to know what the was doing consciously.To my surprise, my lady flung her left arm up behind her into my grasp. She had been supporting herself with this. Instinctively and by pure. . romanticized ... idea of my noble champion, at my side, righting wrongs and carrying out my justice like in the stories I grew up with. I admit my words were driven by an overwhelming sense of gratitude. I might even go so far as to say I felt indebted to you for saving my life.”“Princess Ataya...,” Yren started, shaking his head.“Stop,” she ordered, interrupting him. “If gratitude or a sense of debt was all there was, I would not have pushed my claim afterwards. I would not be insisting on.