. Oh, how stupid of me! You came to see Captain Anson." Yes," she answered with emphasis. Somehow, facing her father gave her a feeling of control. "A...d yooo?" Sadly, my intentions were unfriendly when I arrived here, but since then I have revised my views. Now I am here to help a widow in distress, Mrs. Thorpe. She lost her husband last autumn, and now her brother was severely wounded. He was – is First Lieutenant of Syren and Captain Anson's second-in-command." Dh ... Dh ... Dhorpe?". She was a good-looking girl, probably in her mid-twenties, like Jules. Some might call her beautiful, but all I felt was a pang of jealousness over Jules at being able to create a new life with a girl like that, something I had resigned myself never to experience. I knew I could fake affection for a girl in order to trick her into giving me a baby or even hire a womb just to have it, but both options felt dirty to me. I wanted the affection as well but with my tastes that was something I knew I. I stumbled around some before Martin found me working as a guard on an armored car. This is my first mission for the Swamp Dog too." Well I have been a cop, with some protection assignments, so you might want to let me set them up, at least at first." I said it but figured I was in for a fight, since men don't usually like to defer to women."So you married Rodney?" I asked."Nope, gots me a girl though," he said. He was speaking street dialect suddenly. Up to that point he had spoken with. He wasn’t a tall man but God was he built right! A faded t-shirt hugged his muscular chest and a pair of jeans hugged the rest of him just as well. ‘Hey pretty thing, you here alone?’ Annie’s eyes jerked away from Conner and looked up at a slim blonde man. He was cute but not at all like her Conner. She felt herself blush and was about to tell him that she wasn’t interested when Conner came up beside her and put his hand on her shoulder. ‘As a matter of fact she’s not.’ The man beside her.