I walked out of the bathroom to see that my husband and his other friends had returned."Hey babe", my husband said smiling. "Did Rodney and Ken look a...fter you?" Yes they did babe" I said as I looked at Rodney. Rodney winked back at me.As we drove home, I kept thinking about the unbelievable experience I had. The amount of pleasure I felt. Did my husband know? Did he plan this? I didn't have answers to these questions. What I did know is that this won't be the last time this happens.PART 2My. Women grieved and life was for the living."What happened?" No one knows, they didn't come back."And, still ... men go down to the sea and sail away.The crewmen of the Japanese traders were less trouble than the other nations. The local law liked that.Polite and efficient.Nobody thought to mention deadly.The unexpected fire in the galley, the leaking stuffing box, the engine room explosion. Who knows? No survivors. No witnesses. Here today, gone tomorrow.Nobody lived to put the ship visits of. ‘No, not for the past year. We don’t talk all that much,’ she admitted and smiled. ‘Maybe I should give him a call.’ ‘You should,’ Ben agreed. ‘It’s never a bad thing to maintain a relationship with your parents as long as it’s a healthy one. Besides, you and your father had each other’s back after Evan’s passing. You guys were a team. I’m sure he would love to hear from you.’ *** That night when Elle was home and in her room, she thought about her talk with Ben. She did miss her father and. “You need to get naked with us, Josey. I want to break my new car in right. I’ve never had anything like this in my life and I’ll never be able to repay you, even if I work a hundred years.”“You heard her, Josey. Get those wet jeans and boots off,” Adele told me as she looked over the seat at me.“Can you drive, Adele? Do you have a license?” I asked her, pulling my boots off, then sliding my jeans off too.“Yes I can, and yes I do. Why?”“For one thing, we’re going to take turns driving Daisy’s.