I will, too''Your voice rough with lust. ''I need to take you''Stiffening at your words, as if waking up from a trance. I turn my face. ''Wait! I can'...t... I can't do this!''''I can give you what you need I swear it''''Noooo!''Normally you'd let go immediately but instincts told you not to. While understanding little about what just happened, you know we've shared something between us.You seem to not be able to allow this to stop - not before giving me the release I so needed and taking yours. Still, trying to heed herwords I began to speculate what the future did in fact hold for menow!I grasped at the potential positives.I could continue nursing, which was my vocation, and gave me a highlevel of fulfillment.I could possibly still have children in future.I could find someone new. Zac Smith showed me how easy that could be;too easy perhaps. It didn't feel that way now, but there may well be atime when it's what I want.But trapped in this moment I truly couldn't see beyond it, and. They would be able to occupy it within days.The next stop was the barracks. Unsurprisingly almost all soldiers and most of the ex-Malshallian sailors opted to sign with Southern Cross Shipping as crew. Dent decided to keep the relative ranks of the marines intact for the time being and left it up to the non-commissioned officers to plan and execute the move to the new facilities. Berthing would be provided but any crewmen were welcome to find their own accommodations in town if they so. I think we ought to have a couple days off and just have some fun. Sam thinks my idea has merit. Let me know. Hell, come over for supper tonight. Pa left a few bottles of wine for the men to drink. I’m not drinking because of the baby. Tell Hey Pete. Maybe the Indians want to get in on this too. Love. N”Rita showed the note to me. I began to laugh. “What’s funny?”“Nancy’s note. She doesn’t write a note like the refined woman who came here late last summer from a city where herding steers and.