"Why bother," I laughed, "who's going to see me? I think you should get yours off too." You smiled and came down the steps into the water, leaving the... glasses on the side. You slid your suit off and threw it to the side. We both just floated for a moment, letting the heat escape our bodies.I got out, picked up my wine and sat on the steps. I sipped and watched you swim around, noticing the way the moon shone on your wet skin. I've always told you how beautiful you are by candlelight, but it. At the end of the story he had us all to hold hands with the person across from us and gave us Indian names. The girl across from me he gave the name of Morning Dove and he used the name he had given me on the day I became a man of the tribe, Running Elk. When he finished he told Morning Dove and I to stay holding hands and said. ‘I have just seen a vision that your two lives will always be intertwined.’ Being just twelve I somehow believed that this time he was probably wrong in his vision,. It was only after I married that I became more stable in my actions and my reputation as a risk-taker of notorious proportion was ruined forever. I could see now that it probably saved my life in the long run and I regretted losing my wife and son to the advances of a rich oil-man from the Houston area when I was gone for an extended mission to some third-world country. It was entirely my fault and I bore no rancor to either of them for the betrayal. That was a subject I rarely cared to talk. “Do you, Eric, take this woman, Maryam, to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, to love, cherish, and protect, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth, for as long as you both shall live?” Lacey continued after the rings were exchanged.“I do.”Eric smiled at the idea that he had his pretty Middle Eastern bride of his very own fantasies ... something about Middle Eastern women really excited him.“Do you, Maryam, take this man,.