See three attractive women and one hot guy and, before the night is over, three out of the four are offering to shoot me. My luck is really bad someti...mes. I raised my hands over my head. No sense in chasing Thorfinn now. After all, I couldn’t catch him loaded down with bullets, fatal to me or not. I figured it was much more important to make nice with the local cops. Besides which I needed to get in contact with Robert. This was important. We were in more trouble than I had previously thought.. I love you very much." {Sigh}, I know." Carol snuggled in tight, with her head on my chest. A few happy tears rolled onto me.We spent several minutes like this, then Carol quietly said, "Donna's got no idea how good love can be."Two thoughts crossed my mind (more than one thought at a time was a very common occurrence for me). I said them both, "Donna and I had a very nice spoon hug this morning: affectionate, quiet and sweet, so I think she's getting it. Not as deeply as you and me, but I. "Most people do, and I have to assume Evan does."Krissi nodded. "Part of that is cultural upbringing. A girl is taught, not openly, that she uses her body to hold a man." She snickered. "The people who say that obviously never think that love can do the same thing. I was surprised to discover that there are married couples that don't make love." They don't... ? But..." They don't," Krissi said. "I know that's hard to believe, but it was in some study I read. For them marriage is friendship,. He'd liked "the cut of her jib" even then. And at the Submarine Ball, Nancy seemed so shy, so fragile—and Deborah so fiercely protective, without being assertive. He'd danced with both, and with all his officers or their spouses, as custom demanded. But I enjoyed Deborah—and Nancy—in my arms more than any of the others.No, he reassured himself, I didn't start thinking about any silly unwritten rules until after I'd made the decision to ask them out. Just the head trying to provide.