She noticed though. The warmth of his manly chest pressing against her breasts still burned inside her.The meat of the animal Mary and Lou butchered l...asted a good while longer than Patrick's. Lou showed Mary how to cut the flesh into strips and hang it in the air so it could dry. She marveled at the idea. There was no waste this way. "First you eat the fresh meat," he explained, "and when it's gone, use the dried." These past several days they'd been eating the dried, but that was almost gone. Even in front ofthe man who held his future in the palm of his hand. It was heady stuff.The man struggled to keep his concentration, but it was ultimatelyfutile. Mr. Tanaka started quietly pressing for answers on the moresensitive issues. At one point, he suggested that Rose start shiftinginto the man's birth language for some of the questions and suggestions.In short, he played him like a Stratocaster.After a while, the man seemed to realize what he had been saying. Heunconsciously shifted. The southwestern coast is the only inhabited part, since the northeastern coast is rocky, exposed to the Atlantic, and has a ten-foot drop into a riptide which could carry you to Cuba in a morning. Or, I should say, it would if the sharks didn’t get you first, since every drop of seawater is infested with the things. The hotels and resorts all have shark nets around their beaches, and in every harbor they swim right up to the docks!Since there’s no rain to speak of, all the water on the island. I’d love to give you at least four or five babies if we get that chance’ she told me. I was shocked that she even considered the idea. I was floored. I didn’t no what to say. ‘I want to be your wife when you are ready to ask me to be your wife. Because… well because I already think you and I are a match made in heaven’ she added as her mystifying gaze seemed to hypnotize me. ‘You should know that lying in bed, under these covers with you, and completely naked… it just sounds fun and exciting!.