I've only been kissed twice. Once when I was seventeen a boy kissed me and tried to touch ... my ... breast. I didn't let him though. And the other ti...e, this man wanted to marry me but I didn't like him and he forced himself on me.' Leanna giggled 'I kicked him ... there ... he let go of me and left.'James felt an instant dislike for the unknown man and at the same time, proud of Leanna for defending herself. He chuckled softly. Running his hands over her back, he said with some amusement, 'So. I hated trying to talk to people with a studio executive or photographer breathing down my neck. "Yeah—yeah give me a call as soon as you're done, and I'll make it work." Okay, bye." I exhaled deeply as I hung up. My relationship with Rob was over in ... I checked my watch ... ten hours and counting. I didn't think he'd be too upset, but it'd been a nice thing. We never got in each other's way. We weren't possessive. We liked the same movies. Like I said, it'd been a nice thing. I realized then. I went into my closet and put on one of my sexiest bedroom outfits: see-through black lace knickers and a matching sheer bra; stockings; a suspender belt; my grandmother's pearl necklace. I put on makeup and perfume. When I was ready I looked in the mirrors in my closet. All of the grooming that week had paid off – I looked fit, and hot. Then, dressed only in that skimpy lingerie, I went downstairs to the kitchen to make dinner.That was where he found me when he got home from school. He stood. We deal with pirates as you do, Herr Frund – decisively. Others belonged to the men that conspired against my father. They, like the pirates, no longer have a use for ships. Others have been given to Azkoval as a gift from men that wish to live here permanently. The truth is, we have a dozen ships carrying various things ... troops, cargo, passengers. What I do not have is a single person I trust that knows a single thing about navigation or currents or trade winds. I would ask that Garten.