I dried off and left the shower. I did not have any tans, even after sunbathing. My body was white, but my overall appearance was calm and at peace. W...en I returned to my room, I could not feel the joy, the warmth, the hope and even the relief in my heart.So I went to bed and fell into a deep sleep. As soon as I was woke up, I went into the kitchen. There was my sister, bent over the stove, trying to cook food, wearing nothing but a nightie.Hey, turn that stove down to ‘low’. It met up with highway 263 a few miles west, and from there it was either a couple of miles back north to hit a junction with I-5 or else just a dozen miles or so south to Yreka, where 263 and I-5 merged. He must've decided to switch over to the coastal route once he hit California for some reason and was planning to take this road west and south until he hit the coast. Still, looking at the terrain on the GPS' map, I couldn't see what attracted him to this new plan. Another bit of information. But I told him no, this was it, they couldn’t try him again, not ever. I explained about double jeopardy until it got through his thick skull.“You mean they can’t—” he said, still not quite believing.“That’s the law,” I explained. “You can only be tried once for any crime. You’re free.”“Then I can stop all the bullshit about I didn’t do it?” he asked.It froze me. I’d been picking up the papers from the table and stuffing them into my briefcase, but I suddenly couldn’t move. I stared at him, and. But in light of my being involved in this situation I think I have a right to know.’ ‘Of course you would think that. But the situation doesn’t involve you. You just think it does. If that bitch had given me the tapes none of this would have happened.’ ‘What tapes?’ I cried angrily. He refused to answer. Chance groaned and shifted a little bit. I turned to him and kissed his mouth. He opened his eyes. ‘Piper it’s dark.’ He croaked. ‘Yes it is.’ ‘Is it night time?’ ‘Yeah.’ I rubbed his fingers.