Johan kicked the Berretta over to theguards and lowered the cue, letting it also drop to the floor."Medico!" Rachel shouted at the guards, "r?pidament..."She bent to the injured woman and did a quick examination. The gun hadbeen at waist level, the bullet entering just below the ribs at a slightangle. She couldn't be sure if it had struck the heart or just the liverand lung, there seemed to be no exit wound in her shoulder."I'm so sorry," she said, tears forming in her eyes, but the womandidn't. Brains. Education.” She sighed. “You hang out with these people, Tommy. What am I doing here?”“You’re my date, remember?”“Oh, yeah...” The look on her face was less than confident, though.Truth is, she wasn’t the only single girl there. One of the female engineers was there, too – Amy Tran, with a date as well. Amy’s cute as hell, bright, too. 3Sigma’s not known to hire the stupid. Somehow, though, even though Amy and I worked in fairly close proximity, she never quite, well, DID it for me.. Just as he does, they both hear the front door of the house being unlocked and opened.They both turn their heads towards the bedroom door in curiosity and to be sure of what they had heard. They clearly hear the front door slamming shut, quickly followed by the careless loud dropping of the keys in the ceramic key bowl.They both realize that their parents are back home but a lot earlier than they had anticipated. They both turn their heads back to face each other and simultaneously say the. Colonel, let the brass know that I want to keep the pressure on! Turn up the heat! Crush them!”“Yes, sir. The plan is that by this time tomorrow the British will have begun swinging west, and they plan to hammer the 7th Adnan Infantry and finish them off. That will effectively surround them. Uh, what about prisoners, sir? We blew through the 1st Hammurabi and left a lot of stranded Iraqis behind. Should we collect them?”I snorted. “What prisoners? No, I am not being quite that bloodthirsty..
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