I missed a father who lived life large, filling a room to bursting with his energy, making you feel excitement at the most mundane things, wanting to ...lease him."Aidan?"Glancing at Alexis, slender, fine-boned like Mom, young, her soft brown eyes glistening with unshed tears, my heart ached for her. How hard it must be, so much younger than me. I moved to her, wrapping her in my arms, hugging her as she finally, finally let go and cried into my shirt, dampening it with her agony.I held her head. I wish you could have been here, it would have been a lot more fun," Dan said."Oh hon, that's just what I wanted to hear," Debbie gushed."You were worried?" Of course I was worried. Li is gorgeous, sexy, and totally uninhibited." Yeah, all true. But she's not my wife. You are. I love you Debbie." I love you Dan." Zach told me what you were doing Debbie," Dan said quietly, "are you all right, really?"Yeah, I think I... wait, who told you?" Debbie was stunned."Zach did. He told me today after Li. ) Thanks, Sam. I owe you. Bye.”“Sam will take care of some time off for me. He’ll take care of letting General Patterson know, too. Look Cindy, I love you. We’ll be OK. Try to think positively about this. No need to worry and make it worse than it is, OK?” She nodded. I kissed her and held her for a bit.Sandy came over again and melted into our arms. “I’m scared, Charlie.”“Hang in there, Punkin’. Let’s go see the doctor tomorrow and then we’ll know what’s happening. We’ll get through this. At John's command, 7 rifles spoke as one. They continued to shoot, but not for very long, until all of the Indians were dead. After the shooting was over, Abigail did her usual cropping and stuffing of the corpses.John suspected that one of the reasons that the local Indians made such an effort to stay on the good side of the Anglos was Cock Cutter's expanding reputation among the local tribes. She had attained a kind of mysterious aura of magical invincibility, and none of the local Indians.