"Sweetie, I owe you big time. Let meshow you how generous I can be." I held my breath while he dialed thecombination to his safe...there was a large...brass paperweight on hisdesk, and I deftly picked it up and hid it behind my back. When he bentdown to reach into the safe, I came up behind him and brought it down ashard as I could on the back of his ugly head. Norman collapsed into a heap on the floor. I stepped over him andstarted unloading the contents of his safe, looking for anything. It had taken her almost four minutes to cross it, which meant that her stamina was getting really good. As her hands struck the muddy shallows next to the shore, she pushed upward and took a great gasp of air, greedily replenishing what she had gradually let bubble out on her way across the lake as it turned to carbon dioxide.Shaking her golden blond hair out of her face, she flopped backwards into the water, causing a long, shallow, slow motion splash in the one-quarter gravity. She floated. ”“What do you have for me?” he replied, taking a seat at the paper-strewn desk.Janie took out a pad from her black jeans’ back pocket. “We got both capos, the three enforcers (minus Fortescu) and the three muscle boys. I have them all duct taped to chairs on the plant floor,” she told him before grinning impishly. “I figured they would have more fun figuring out what we were planning for them there.”“Have any of them offered up anything?” he asked, his tone proclaiming his doubt that they. He stood to his feet as quickly as he could, red in the face. ‘I’m sorry, I-I’m sorry, I just wanted some quiet for a while.’ He paused. ‘I’ll be leaving.’ ‘Stay,’ Alana said. ‘What do you see?’ ‘What?’ he asked. ‘What do you-‘ she cut herself off midsentence as she looked into his eyes. How’d she miss that look? He looked away. ‘You’ve lost someone.’ She concluded. Jed grew angry. He did not like her being aware of anything. ‘Who told you? Mitchell? Cameron?’ Alana touched his arm to calm him.