"Goodbye everyone," Allison called out to the crew, despite the fact that they had all had their farewells earlier.The ship was taken up into a genera... hum of parting words and waves of goodbye, as the little rowboat was lowered to the ocean.When they hit the clear, blue water, Nick took up the oars and started in a slow and steady pace toward shore."Are you nervous?" Allison asked."No."She could tell he was. " Don't worry, everything's going to be fine."He just glowered at her and kept rowing.. "I'm going to kick you in a minute." she laughed, but I finished rolling it, lit it, took a long, long pull and handed it to her."TOMMY!" What mum, is there a problem?" I laughed and she clenched her fists, posing like a boxer with a fist under my chin."I'm not very big." she smiled, "But I swear, if you don't give me my pressie by the time I've had a toke, I'll thump you."She took a long pull and sat down quickly as the new and much stronger weed played angelic harps inside her brain."Oh." she. ” Rob prompted himself.“No.”“Do it. You know you want to. You know you want to find them there.”“No.” Nonetheless he executed a perfect three-point turn and went back.He never told Laura that he’d found the Sergeant’s Pontiac at the Candy Cane Motel. It was parked in front of room nine. He left the Jeep a half mile up the road, then trekked back and took station across the road in a slightly elevated wooded area. He also never told Laura that he’d purchased a pair of binoculars from Sears and. I mean, with women. They travel all over the country, and into Canada, for hockey games and there are women that just throw themselves at them.’ Lena flushed. She’d never thought about Anatoli meeting women on his road trips. Even if she had, she’d never have suspected that he’d sleep with any of them. He didn’t seem like the type. ‘He’s not like that,’ she said quietly, after a few moments of silence. Hilary just gave her a long look and took the remote control back. ‘Well, you’d know him.