He spun round, shocked for the second time that morning, to find his rather older neighbour standing beside him. She recoiled a little and immediately...apologised for frightening him."Mike, I'm sorry... I mean, I didn't mean to make you jump." He laughed for the first time since the 'bang' and explained why he had not heard her coming.Kate looked round her. "No power?" Mike confirmed the problem. "Right," Kate said, "Decision time is here; stop faffing about, close the door behind you, and come. She kept them all on a short leash and gave them little tidbits of female favors but hadn’t let any of them take her prize as yet because she was determined to get as far away from military life as possible.Before I set out on the expedition to the railhead and to fill the list for Hildago and the ladies, I stopped by the back shack behind Hildago’s place of business and told the pretty Indian girl called “Rains Between Legs”,“Hop on the blankets, girl, and get that leather skirt up for me.. She padded around the house to the gate and slipped into the front yard. She took long steps and rounded the bushes separating her parent's front yard from the D'Angelo's.The D'angelo's garage door was open.Britney's stomach twisted as she cut across the grass. They never left their garage open. Her slippers whisked across the pebbly driveway. She almost slipped on the smooth cement floor of the garage. The door leading into the house was also open.This is so dumb.Britney pressed forward,. .. and then demonstrated.Clusterfuck!Eventually ... amid much laughter from the Coast Guard ... they got it done, and I motored us away from captivity. Out the channel and into the mole. Sail was raised ... by hand ... with much confusion and groaning and we sailed between the lights and headed back north.“Junior?”“Yes?”“You’ll make a hand ... the rest of you? Probably not. And you seven know you’re stuck until we go back to Pentwater. That damn helicopter has heat identification and you need.