The boy who helped us load our gear kept one eye on Havana and one on Liz. I noticed he swelling jeans as we made trip after trip between the SUV and... the boat. Hal was a local boy and he made his summer money on the water. We asked him how to get to our campsite but no matter how he explained it none of it made any sense. He finally relented and said he would take us there and come back in the morning. He grabbed a small pack in his old pickup and jumped on with us.While we were loading. " she said."No worries, it was just a last-minute thing."Mom hung up and I found Darcy looking at a painting. I said, "Can I show you around?"I showed her the house and the pool. I said, "Do you want to take a ride around the lake?" Sure, that sounds like fun."I idled out a bit and then opened it up and was skipping across the surface of the lake. We got around to the other side and I swung around and came back toward the center of the lake before I slowed to a stop. I said, "Darcy, the reason. I don’t know what I want. I just wanted to be free no matter what!”“Free?”“Where I came from was like a gilded cage. I was trapped there until it was deemed time for me to be sold off to marry someone. But I didn’t want that, I wanted to find someone to be with for myself! I wanted freedom!” Kaito rubs her head with a smile on his face. “And I want to help you with that. You saved me from just sitting in some crypt collecting dust, so I have to thank you for that.”“Thank you. And I’ll try not. I was a little shocked to see him and was told to sit down. I was getting a little scared, had Mark come clean? However my worries were misplaced. My parents and Mark explained that he had won a holiday for 1 week in Menorca. He had two tickets and claimed he didnt have anyone to go with and he was asking me. My parents were okay with it, maybe they wouldnt have if they had known what we had been doing but I wasnt thinking about that. I said yes and knew I was set for a week alone with Mark.