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remain strictly 'professional around him at all times.'"
     
    I suddenly coughed, nearly choking on a bite of starfruit. "What did he say?"
     
    Laura grinned, laughing a little. "Oh, just a few little things to the effect of that he thinks you're a beautiful woman. He might have mentioned something about your 'ocean blue eyes.' I think he was more than a bit captivated by them. So, if you ever do feel like interacting with Eric on a level other than a professional one, I don't think he'd be opposed. Although...." With her expression becoming more serious, Laura set her fork down. "I feel like I should warn you about something. Something relating to Eric's sex life."
     
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    When Laura said the words Eric's sex life , I half-choked on another piece of starfruit for the second time.
     
    I coughed a bit, then took a sip of coffee to get the piece to go down. "What, um...what exactly do you have to warn me about? And what does it have to do with Eric's sex life?"
     
    With just the hint of a smile curving her pale pink mouth, Laura coughed lightly.
    "Well, I guess what I have to warn you about is more about the fallout from his sex life. See, over the years here on the island, he's had a couple of serious girlfriends, though none he's ever seemed to have a very strong love connection with. I happen to know some of the particulars of these relationships because Matt, my husband, is Eric's best friend.
     
    “But, anyway, Eric's had three serious girlfriends over the years, and though he never seemed to have a true love connection with any of them, the three women themselves seemed to develop some pretty strong feelings for him . I'm sure these feelings were partly love feelings, but from what I heard...well, I'll try to be as tactful as possible about this. I'll just say that from what I heard, all three women developed some pretty strong feelings of addiction."
     
    "'Addiction?'"
     
    "Addiction. Ad dic tion, to be very crude about it. And, yes, I did just mean to emphasize a syllable that is also a slang term for a part of the male anatomy. Eric's three girlfriends all seemed to become addicted to that part. Apparently, Eric is very well-endowed, and very good in bed."
     
    I let this sink in for a moment, my face flaming for some reason.
    With her green eyes holding a bit of twinkle, Laura continued. "Anyway. So, after each breakup, however many years apart, all of them instigated by Eric, the women didn't take things very well, being that they were each, as I said, quite addicted by the time of their different breakups.
     
    “It's always been the same, each time. Eric calls things off; the woman kind of goes nuts, and stalks him, and threatens him, and begs for him to take her back, and generally causes trouble. Eventually, after repeated chances to live in peace, Eric asks her to move to a different part of the island. And not so much as asks , really, but commands .
     
    “Being that he's our leader, he's obeyed. So, over the past however many years, he's 'asked' three different women to move to different parts of the island, and they each have. See, little sidebar here, there's really four inhabited sections of the island. There's the east side, where our little village, Clearwater, is here, then there are similar inhabited villages of a couple hundred people each, with their own leaders, in the west, north, and south sections of the island.
     
    The island is really somewhat of a big diamond shape, maybe ten miles by ten miles across at the very blunted points, so you can think of the four little villages each getting their own 'point,' so to speak. And as far as the middle of the 'diamond,' well, nobody gets that part, because the most inland area of the island contains the lake, which we don't go near, as I'm sure Eric has already told you."
     
    I nodded, picking up my coffee. "He has."
    I was still a bit confused about the dark lake the island was named after, confused about its supposed currents, specifically,