Strangely, the two boys looked just like the four-eyed father and the two girls looked just my baby sister Sue.Sue was married to the reverend Waygood...Markus a little over sixteen years now and her oldest child, a pretty little thing called Sue Ellen was fixing to graduate from Tulsa United High later that year despite the fact she was obviously carrying a child of her own much to the embarrassment of the preacher man, reverend Waygood.I have to admit that I had been carrying a torch for my. He had offered the family a few unused rooms in the palace, temporary lodging. There was no point sending them off to live in a tent while more permanent housing was created. A thought crossed his mind. "Your husband has returned to the mainland?" With our son. He felt we were better off staying here, for now." Of course he would. James knew where Ludoslaw and his son would be sleeping, and it was no place for well-bred ladies ... at least, the ladies in question would think so. James nodded."I. " Carolyn said officers down, shouldn't we help them," Iprotested."Not yet," he said. "We don't need more casualties..."Even over the distance and the gloom, I could see the manturn to look at us and I knew we had his full attention. Hemight have been a psychotic but he related to the worldaround him. The hairs on my arms prickled and the buzzstarted behind my ear."He's up to something," I shouted to Mercer."You're the muscle... block him," Mercer shouted back.I concentrated trying to feel. Manuel would help him. He tried to walk in the heels but ended up carrying them.Manuel was doing his morning routine. He was counting the cash he grabbed from some old broads purse last night, sipping a beer and smoking a joint. He hadn't heard from Juan for a few months now, but that was not unusual for their life. Juan was probably in jail somewhere or maybe shacked up on the run. Manuel heard the knock on the door and saw the chick through the door peephole. He opened it up and Juan stumbled.