I walked into the lounge and she was sitting on the couch with a face as long as a fortnight, her face in her hand staring at the television, I sat be...ide her “is there a problem” I said, trying to sound sympathetic, she glared at me with tear filled eyes ”I hope you two had a good fucking time on Sunday” she blurted throwing Gillian’s bra at me which she had found under the cushion of the couch whilst cleaning, I thought there is no point in beating about the bush, this has got to stop, it is. " Fine. Give me ten or fifteen minutes and I will call you back."She waited, and when the phone rang, she checked Caller ID to make sureit was George before she answered."I just got off the phone with Rod, and he agrees completely with me: youwill be our guest for as long as you need to stay, and we absolutely willnot take no for an answer." That's very sweet of you both, but..." I told you, we won't take no for an answer," he said. It took Sharon afew moments to compose herself."This isn't a. "That got a favorable response, especially from the women, and everybody relaxed. Sue gave them a synopsis of what we had seen north of Cairo, and she asked what were the conditions on the river around here. As expected, we did not learn much about the river beyond a couple of miles upriver, but we were warned about two groups of pirates that did operate in this area. We were also told of three bands of bandits who were rumored to be found in this area, but none of them had been seen lately.We. Speaking of tomorrow, you remember I told you last week that we had boarded more than Milo? I have a couple more starting tomorrow. One of whom already knows Niki well”.“Two more? So, there will be four again, like before?” Roger’s mind was racing, thinking of watching Niki with up to four dogs. He could only imagine what that would look like. His son’s confident smirk seemed to indicate that he knew quite well what Niki was likely to get up with four male dogs in the house. Or yard.A minute.