Cruises are often taken for special occasions, and in this case, Lane and Roger are celebrating their divorce. Actually, they just didn't want to lose the deposit made in happier times. They agree not to get in each other's way if presented with any romantic or sexual opportunity.<br><br>Roger goes right out looking for sex, but Lane isn't in a rush. With the unasked for help of a loose cat and an overly-precocious young lad, Lane bumps into Steve. After a few shared meals, shore tours, and a life-threatening storm that leaves the ship stranded in darkness, bumping turns to humping, and their relationship grows.<br><br>Shipboard romances are iffy, though. Can theirs survive a pirate invasion, a disabled ship, and a slam-the-door argument?

Romance on the Sea

As I rode the tender in, I noticed a lot of air traffic. The island had only a small runway and no facilities there, but it seemed very busy. A lot of people were coming onboard with tools and boxes and crates, and a lot of people were leaving with luggage and sour expressions, ready to board those empty planes and get out of Dodge, so to speak. What, no electricity? Plumbing not great? Bunch of sissies; they were going to miss my wedding!


I landed and walked into town and asked where I could help.


This was a mistake. I didn’t find this out until an hour or so later when a large part of a wall fell on, you guessed it, my foot, which had almost stopped hurting. And as I took off my shoe and sock to make sure it wasn’t damaged to where it needed a doctor, a motherfucking huge centipede the size of my arm ran out from under some junk and bit me.


Chapter 20