I ran through them one at a time. The first was from Tom, wondering where I was and, more particularly, where his car was. The second was from Mom. Sh... wanted to hear about the date, naturally, since in her mind, she had set it all up. The third was from Tom again, with a distinct note of panic in his voice. The fourth was from Dana, and I must have played it four times and saved it. She had that ultra sexy voice going and she was telling me how good the last twenty four hours had been and that. Where had he been? All I could make out from his verbal attempts was low level slurred mutterings and gargles. I looked down at him like the piece of crap he was for perhaps the first time in my life. His eyes were rolling all over the place, he reached up for me but I swatted his hand away in disgust.I thought about the abuse Mom had suffered at his hands, verbal, mental and physical. The neglect and the cheating that had probably been going on behind her back for years, both before and after. I promised to help him do that once he had the pistol. I was already digging deeply into my money reserve, so I did not offer to buy him a gun. The Women’s Council of Elders had been very impressed by what the guns could do when we were attacked by the Comanches, though they were very reluctant to admit that, so I thought that Big Wolf might be able to get the money from them to buy a gun.Just before we got to the river to cross into Mexico, we heard some gunfire. The shots were too close. I parked the car and took my stuff in “I’m here!” I said loudly. Jack came rushing in and jumped up to meet me, his paws against my breasts, tall enough to look down at me. His tail was flying and he slurped me across the face “Hey Jack!” I laughed and scratched behind his ears. “Hey Chris!” Jennifer said as she came in. We hugged and she said “Ok, you’re here now we’re going to take off a little early, thanks again.” she told me. “Anytime, I love hanging out with Jack.” I replied happily. So.