The belt whooshed past his face. Bubba dropped the belt and lunged with fingers spread like a hawk ready to snatch a mouse. Steele grabbed his arm, tu...ned at the waist, and flipped the man over his hip. Bubba crashed to the floor.Panting, Bubba looked up at Steele. “What do you want? Who are you?”“I was walking by and heard the screams.”“So?”“So I was curious.”Bubba studied Steele. “Who the hell are you? How’d you know my name?”“Saw you on the news.”Molly looked over her shoulder at Steele, her. I'll get..." Well, the prodigal son returns," a woman in her mid fifties said as she walked in. Standing five foot three or so, dark auburn hair starting to gray, her body lean with small breasts and startlingly blue eyes that were sparkling with amusement, she carried three cups of coffee on a small tray. "If you had called ahead, I would have had your coffee maker going," she said, nodding to a small table in a corner where Dave and Evie's coffee pot sat."Carmen, I've told you that you don't. “But, you did not answer the question. Why weren’t you afraid of the man with the gun?”“He was only a man,” Tanya replied quietly. “And you are?” the ranger asked, his face glowing with an odd elation.“A woman!” Tanya exclaimed, half-laughing. “A man might want to put many things into me, but a bullet is pretty far down that list.”She frowned at the sudden look of disappointment on the ranger's face. “What do you think I am?” she asked, stepping forward with a sensuous sway of her hips.“Perhaps. At each place setting was a small box, the kind you find on wedding tables; the contents of which only my husband and I knew. Tony winked at me as I laid them out carefully amongst the glasses, wine chiller and candles. He came up beside me and stroked my bum… “you look sensational baby and so sexy. They won’t be able to take their eyes off you, especially Nick”. Nick was the loudest of the three. Tall with strawberry blonde spiky hair, he was a real ladies man, but that made him all the more.