As she had bonded with their General Arron they were a golden couple second only to the Royal family. Everyone knew her and acknowledged her, crowds p...rted for her as she walked, she was a celebrity and it made her uncomfortable.Before crashing on this planet she had been a Bounty Hunter, Smuggler and Mercenary, just like Varna and her crew. She had become the Queen's bodyguard and lady-in-waiting out of necessity. If she had found this planet and still had her ship with its advanced weapons. .. Jeannie caught it and shook her head and mouthed, "call me".The tranquility of the setting was destroyed and two young voices split the air, "Daddy, daddy wait til I tell you..."The kids hugged their dad, then Carol and Jeannie and then headed for his car. Carol walked up to David and looked into his eyes and said "Thank you David."As Dave drove home both kids said, "Dad, why can't mom come home?"Supper over, kids in bed, kitchen cleaned, Dave picked up the phone. Joe answered and they. She'd seen that when he was preparing to rape her.She held it out. It was big. She didn't know how she knew that, but she did. Most men didn't sport this kind of attachment in real life. But it wasn't ridiculous, either.Claire must have thought she needed something larger than life. Thinking about John made it understandable. Any woman would want more than John had to offer. Of course she wasn't thinking about John in physical terms, but maybe Claire had tried to compensate on a physical. Joe was in his mid fifties. He had a history of managing casino resorts in the states for the mob. When things had gotten a bit to warm for him in the legal sense, he had moved to Mexico. When Bill and his associates were looking for someone to run their new venture, Joe was a natural. They knew him, he was available, and he spoke fluent Spanish.Joe was business smart. He knew he had been hired to run an operation that was based on sex. The majority of his staff were going to be women. He.