.. and they're not sure that he's going to make it!"Miranda's eyes filled with tears as she remembered a time when she had lost her own parents."Oh Ma...rcus ... I'm so sorry!"He pulled her into his arms and hugged her tight – seeming to need that contact ... as though he was drawing on her strength.Then he pushed her away gently. "I have to go ... I'm needed at the hospital..."She could see the mask as it slipped into place – covering his grief and anxiety and portraying the strength his family. The climax of the little scene was them getting a bit too pushy and finding themselves picked up and frog-marched off the beach by four big guys.Corey and Madi just sat there with their mouths agape.“What just happened?”, Madi asked.“Sorry about that”, I replied. “My bodyguards don’t like it when aggressive people get too close to me.”“Bodyguards?!”, they both asked.“Well ... yeah. Did you not notice the three guys with guns on the boat. There must be a dozen here on the beach.”“Seriously?!”,. Lots of little things had to be learned the hard way and some were never learned, but taught, once they joined up with two other wagon loads of seasoned travelers.Things like: how to scour cooking pans with river sand, how to properly bank a campfire for the night, why it was necessary to locate off the trail some distance when possible, how to rig a canvas under the wagon to toss in downed limbs or twigs or dried animal droppings; fuel for the time when camp had to be made and no fuel was. The touch and scent of this big black man was powerful What she didn’t know was that the Sheriff had taken the same cocktail as her. All she knew he was incredibly hot.Hannah rushed past her mom and ran towards the kitchen and the smell of pizza.“ It’s all in a day’s work, it’s always a pleasure to reunite a family”, Sheriff Brown humbly saidFranny moved in close to the towering peace officer and put her hand on his belt. She was intoxicated by this mountain of dark flesh.“ If there’s.