It didn’t seem to matter to him if he was holding it right-side up or upside down.“That’s amazing,” Colonel Wynn said.He said, “The whole tr...ick in a shootout is to get a bullet into the other guy before he has a chance to get a bullet into you. My invisible line makes that possible. I love my invisible line.”“Can you teach that to others?”“They’d have to eat, sleep, and take their rifle to bed with them for a couple of years. Hell, they have to make love to it. They’d have to fire thousands of. Slightly open lips meet mine. I reach my arm around the small of her back and hold her to me. The kiss is brief, but so much was said, felt, wanted, and needed through the exchange. Pulling away, our eyes meet once again and I feel a flood of relief. The relief of stepping into a shower when you are chilled to the bone and the water is hot enough to melt your inner core but massage your outer skin into total bliss. I pull her chair back and assist her with positioning at the table. I sit. “What are you worried about?”“That she’ll try to steal him away,” Kara said, a tear running down her face.“She’ll fail miserably if she tries,” I said, wiping the tear away with my finger. “I’m the first person to ever say ‘no’ to her in her life. In fact, that was the point of not having sex with her. She has in her mind that sex is a way to control me, even though she said she thinks men should take charge in the bedroom. She didn’t count on me being able to say ‘no’ and stick to it. That was. This vessel isn’t anything like the them, it’s a rigid metal construction typical of enclosed self-contained environments.”“I’d say it bears investigating,” Eli ventured. “It might give us a better idea as to who else may have come this way.”“Chances are it’s one of the early Tandorian explorers,” Siss suggested. “There were a lot of ships searching for new worlds before they ceased their explorations.”“Take us there, One,” Al instructed. “Whether it’s Tandorian or someone else, we can only.