She looked at me in amazement. “What the fuck! You didn’t tell me you were rich!”“You didn’t ask,” I said reasonably. “How do you expect... to learn anything if you don’t ask?”She punched me hard on the arm. “Smartass!”I showed Carley around. My furniture style is a mix of bamboo, rattan and leather, with framed prints of photos I’ve taken on my travels.“It must be a pain, keeping this place clean,” she said.“Not really. I have a cleaning woman who comes in twice a week.”I’d converted an open area. The Sa'arm will have lots of difficulty aiming at anything in the middle of a raging wildfire. Colonel Frost isn't exactly "frosty" with the idea. (I swear that is his words.)Other than that life does just kind of slip along in our tropical paradise. We have lots of babies to care for, but Louisa puts in a fantastic effort to make sure that we never have a baby crying because they are hungry or need to be changed. We do as a group work to make sure that a baby crying because it is demanding. John was OK. More than OK. The love of my life. Got caught in a mineshaft collapse over in West Virginia. You might have heard about it. Around Christmas the year before last.’ ‘Aw, sorry to hear that, hon. Still, if I was you, I’d keep lookin’ for other work even while your tryin’ to do the job here. These men will eat you right up. It might be better if and when they got a supervisor in here for this shift, but . . .’ ‘Thanks, but I’ll manage,’ she said as the buzzer to end the lunch break. The party was being held at the home of the poor bastard that had married her. It was getting late at night, people were getting drunk, passing out, or slipping off for some "adult time." I was not entertained by the events going on at the party. I decided to go and explore the big house. After all, I was going to be a guest there for a week. I roamed from room to room, looking around, and admiring the different paintings on the walls and the different view from each window. I was at the end of.