He told me that the other person won’t come and started giving me the basics, again, like every other day. So after about 5 minutes of gibberish, he...took me in a car and asked me to drive.We were driving past the estate when he instructed to take the road inside the estate as it had no traffic.I followed his instructions. In a minute or two, he had his right hand on my left leg. When I looked at him, he smiled and slowly pressed my thigh.The hardness of his hand gave me goosebumps as he pressed. Next to him was another camouflaged man, holding a pair of large binoculars to his eyes. The man was keeping a sharp eye on the valley floor. Finn observed the two men for several seconds, scanned the nearby terrain, then ducked back into the Jeep."Looks like there are four of those fuckers. They're lying right in front of the mine shaft. They're split into two teams and they're keeping a pretty close watch on the road leading up to the mine." If they only knew!" Liv chuckled grimly."Yeah,. He exercised alone, he ate alone, he spent his days alone and his nights alone. For all intents and purposes he was a pariah aboard ship.He knew, though, that he would never be allowed to leave the ship, not for as long as their stay lasted. And there were many months still to go.So he brooded. His first command, and he had lost it in ignominy. Not even to another officer, his successor was a despised civilian! His career was ended before it had fairly begun. Even the honors Meiersdottir had. Before she was half way up the street, Sean's Mother was on the phone to Mrs. Cairns.Rumour had it, that a huge row in the Cairns household, lead to Mary sneaking out in the middle of the night, suit case in hand, never to be seen again.Unless of course she was here tonight, at the class reunion.If Mary had come back, he was going to see her, he was going to apologise, he was going to some way or another make it up to her for that last parting. Okay she may be married now, she may have.