Speed? I was thundering along at six and a half knots and I could hear the water burbling in my wake.The party barge passed all too close. I saw one b...onde head pop up, eyes on my thirty foot boat, like she was doing an assessment.The boat was leaving me in its wake when she grabbed a bag and jumped over the rail into the water.Okay, that's different, I thought. I chopped the throttle. Five ton sailboats don't stop on a dime. I threw the transmission in reverse and throttled back up, coming to. " She cuddled closer to him and he felt her breast brush against his chest, sending a spasm of electricity through his body."Yes, even me, I'm afraid," he said, as he slipped his hand from her shoulder to under her arm, feeling the edge of her other breast just under his fingertips."But you wouldn't ever lie to me, would you? I mean that's more important than fooling around isn't it--lying about it?" She pulled back a little to look up into Jamey's strong gray eyes, and his hand trailed down. ”“I remembered ... both,” Claire said as she closed and locked the door behind Patricia. “I meant to call you, but I lost track of time.”Patricia’s look said that she wasn’t going to buy that as an explanation. Not with her friend’s almost compulsive obsession about always being on time for things.“Okay,” Claire admitted, knowing that her lie was a poor one, “I guess I was just thinking that maybe I’d skip the class this week and...”“And you figured,” Patricia said, completing Claire’s train of. ’ Xander replied. ‘Jesus Xand! You don’t even care about the business now either! Get a fucking grip!’ Adam fumed then stormed out of the office. He was heading for London as he knew her only family were down there. He caught the plane straight to London to see what he could find out. ******************************************* Lexi lay in bed. It had been a week without Xander or the rest of the clan, god what will it be like after a month or even a year. As soon as she had left the McCloud.