. What do I know?" Deirdre answered with a sigh."You're learning, little sister." That worries me, too, you know."Jessica only laughed cheerfully in r...sponse to that. * * * *Sir Alomar Dumont of Ilseaa, gave Deirdre a brilliant smile. "Ah,M'lady, if I wasn't already betrothed to my beloved Jessica I would workto give Garret some competition for your favors."Dierdre gave the tall, dark haired knight a skeptical look, smiled thenasked Garret. "Dear, are ALL your. “Stop,” he said to Monica. “I want to hear all about it, but the girls need to hear the whole story.”“Yes,” said Barbie. “And we promise to just listen. We won’t be bitches anymore. We promised.”“Yes, we did,” said Julie, though her voice was tighter.Monica wasn’t far ahead of these girls, in terms of age. They had grown up in a different town than she had, but in her experience, girls were girls. She was fully aware of what unsavory aspects a girl could display and, from what she’d seen,. "Like a magnet, we found the small dock where the other boats had been docked yesterday. Mark made the observation that it looked like a lot of people had recently visited the island. I offered, "You know what it probably was, when some people heard the islands were going to be offered up for taxes, several potential buyers probably came out to look them over."I think everyone bought it except Steve, who looked at me a little crooked, probably thinking of what he thought were gunshots the day. She glanced at the time and saw it was 10 minutes before the phone had to be put away."Did you miss me already?" she asked, thinking Andy had called with something else he thought about."Well, I do miss you," Robert Riley said to his daughter. "But that isn't why I called." You're still picking me up Thursday night, aren't you?" Regan asked urgently."Yes," Robert said. "Uh, this is a bit delicate and I don't want you going crazy on me." What did you do?" Regan hissed."It wasn't me this time,".