I swear she was grinning so big her face was gonna stick that way.“Awesome,” Simon said with a satisfied nod.The others around the table were most...y older than me, but no one seemed to mind me being there. The conversation flowed naturally and I even jumped in a few times. It was obvious to me that they all really liked Sam and accepted me for her sake, but that didn’t bother me at all.One thing I noticed during lunch was Bethany and Collen were fighting, albeit quietly. The previous week she. When I got up to leave the suite for a meeting with Harry, she was fast asleep across the keyboard of the computer.I had to put up with quite a bit of teasing from Harry and the others over my personal harem as Rick had called it. "You'll be off to Kushtia next," he'd said. "What with Tricia, those two and that Kelly girl. I don't know how you have the energy."The truth was I didn't have the energy. I hadn't seen much of Tricia or Kelly. Tricia had been a bit pissed off when I told her I was. Lynn began to fuss, Major was getting hair all over his outfit! ‘OMG! My lint roller is going have to work overtime when I get home. Look at all this dog hair I’m getting on my beautiful pants, and shirt.’ Rolling his eyes he brushed the shirt for emphasis, ‘Sam what are you going to do with this…this…animal,’ patting the big dog on the head, looking up at Sam with the most pitiful expression on his face that he could muster. Sam laughed hard seeing all of Major’s seventy five pounds curled up. Would you say that you served with highly trained soldiers? Were they good soldiers?" They were good Marines," Seth corrected the old Indian."Okay," Udit said with a ghost of a smile. "They were good Marines. So, what were your good Marines like on guard duty, in the jungle, knowing someone was out there that wanted to hurt them? How often were shots fired at night when nothing was there? Or, maybe it was only an animal, or, heaven forbid, a villager." At Seth's slow nod Udit continued. "Are.