I know that isn't an excuse, and I should have withstood his manipulations, but looking back, he set me up a long time before we actually ever did any...hing. Matter of fact I..."The look in John's eyes caused me to falter in my speech. I had prepared it all to get it over with right away. Yet, something in John's eyes told me that what I was saying wasn't new to him. Matter of fact, at that moment, I wouldn't have given a plugged nickel for Bill's life. It was the darkest I had ever seen in. When I got to the accident, I realized that Kim's voice hadn't begun to express how bad it was. Somehow, the wires had gotten tangled because the local police were already there. One was standing off the side of the road throwing up his lunch. When he stood up, he looked young to me, barely more than a teenager.I was tempted to let them deal with it, but the highway is our jurisdiction. If we let the locals do the dirty work, soon enough they feel like they can do it all without us. Besides,. My neighbour’s wife Megha, however, was a freelancer and worked from home most of the time.One fine day, I got a message from Megha in the afternoon. She told me that her laptop was not connecting to the WiFi and she had to attend an urgent meeting. She asked me whether I can lend her my laptop as Amar was not going to be back till night.I wasn’t using it, so I headed to her house with my laptop bag. I rang the doorbell and my neighbour’s sexy wife Megha opened the door. She was standing in an. "I don't know, man. Why not just come back in twomonths when you have the money?" Because in two months, I'll already be in the army," I explained. "Iwant to avoid the draft - not desert. The Army is bad enough on draftdodgers, but I hear they're really rough on deserters."Vic smiled grimly. "You've got that right. Did you know they have theright to shoot deserters down on sight?"They didn't, I know now, but I believed it then. I gulped."Look," Vic drawled carefully, "I know you're a friend of.