Displacement hulled vessels have a real physical limit. Ours is eight and a half knots – just a hair under ten miles an hour. From where we’re loo...ing out of our pilothouse, the horizon’s three and a half miles off.“First aid kit and fire extinguisher,” Ben said.As we watched, the plume of smoke disappeared. I’m thinking either the fire’s out or they sank. Morbid thought.Coast Guard showed up on the channel, too. We went back and forth with them about our location and intentions, steadily. She undid the hand cuffs to release the from the headboard and clicked them back shut ,Get up she said , she went back to the computer, she had recorded everything. She got a piece of paper a wrote on it for a couple of minutes then passed it to me, your going to read this to me OKI nodded to frightened to disagree,She told me to stand in front of her door and pointed the camara at me go on she snappedI read the words tears still running down my cheeksI'm Chris I like to be called ChristineI am. As I ran, some thoughts kept sneaking in, even though I didn't want them. I had to admit to myself that Marie's leaving had hurt me enormously. I had just tried to hold myself together, and finish my studies. The thing I'd had with Beverly had been nice; but it had been mostly physical relief, safe physical relief for both of us. We both needed to know that there was nothing wrong with us on that level. But I had sensed something with Erin. I had opened myself again, the tiniest bit; and even. Jack inhaled deeply then released the breath in a big gush of air.Ariel stared openly at Jack as he quickly undressed and laid on the bed beside her, pulling her close to him. She could feel his hard maleness throbbing against her hip as his hands moved over the heated flesh of her tummy, her muscles flinching at the gentle touch of his fingers. His hand moved up to cup the fullness of her breasts, rolling the pert nipples between his thumb and finger. Ariel closed her eyes tight against the.