"I never said I didn't like you Silvia. I just said you were hard headed and couldn't be counted on to do the sensible thing. Like walk away from Andr...w and the Brit in Vera Cruz," He said."It worked out," I said."It won't always work out," he said."Some things, I wouldn't want to carry on my soul," I replied."Like leaving half your command in the jungle," he said."I wasn't there, I don't know what really happened," I said."It was simple. We should have fought our way out ten days sooner than. Once there she shucked her clothes and eschewing her costume she pushed me through the showers and the footbath and into the pool."Okay you can cry now, no one will notice your tears with all this water around." She put her arms around me and pulled my head onto her shoulder. It was too much like last night and I sobbed helplessly. She rubbed my back and crooned wordless comforting noises into my ear. Eventually the storm passed and she pulled away from me."Better?" Some" Let's swim then, the. " Glad to hear it." He got out a brass brush and worked over the grilles; our conversation was over. We went back inside and he stuck his head in the kitchen, "Ten minutes." Then he waved me back into the living room and I resumed my seat on the couch. About half of the distaff males eyed me with one expression or another on their faces; the other half ignored me and concentrated on baseball. I pretended to be fascinated with the stuff.Ten minutes later, Mimi stuck her head through the door,. He went for the open door at the back of the kitchen unit and that was as far as he got. He didn’t end up dead, but he did get a weapon butt in his face that sent him flying backwards and onto the floor.“Everyone shut up,” I bellowed over the cries of horror and the clattering of chairs as people leapt to their feet, “and everyone stay where they are. If you move, I will kill you.”My words shut people up and my weapon thrust towards the panicking group simply reinforced the fact that I meant.