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"Thank you" It seeht I should stand onwith this"

"Your choice," he told her

"Thank you" She looked at hi moment He found that he really was in love with her eyes Other assets as well, but her eyes…

The reard He pulled his hands away and shoved theht I’ll talk to you toan, and then hesitated

"Actually, what?" he queried

"Well, I am your assistant, and a writer I have a list of interview questions I wrote the an expert on the pirate era, and with Pirates in Paradise gearing up, it see I mean, it’s your project, you have your own questions, and once Marty gets going, but…"

"I’ll take your questions," he told her

"I’ll be right back," she told him She turned the key, entered the hallway and ran up the stairs She returned within a rinned "You are on the ball," he told her

"I swear, we’re good at e do I’ood at what I do Honestly"

"I believe you" He cleared his throat "I’ to hear back from Jaden and Ted"

"Of course Um, well, see you then"

The door was still ajar He opened it for her, and she entered the hallway He watched as she ran up the stairs The door closed behind her, and Sean pushed it so that it would close firmly and lock He turned away and headed for his own place

He barely knew her

If he’d admitted it to hi that she see

Two people had died Maybe a third

And theThe only way to really understand it, to try to figure out what could have happened, was to follow the same trail

They would do so

Two boats

He’d make sure that Vanessa was on his

And that Jay Allen wasn’t

That night, it was the heads

Vanessa was sound asleep, and the world was pleasant and dark, and then the darkness began to lift She alking along the shore, and it was beautiful, pristine white sand, the ocean in all its glorious shades of aqua and blue, light and deep She heard the sound of the waves and felt the sand and the pleasant wash of the waves over her toes

And then she reached theia’s head, with her arms in front of her, stuck out of the sand, and Travis’s head, his arms in front, as well

"Vanessa, see! I told you I wasn’t lying!" Georgia said angrily