"Go take a shower and then we will eat."Sure didn't sound like she would brook any nonsense from me. Dinner was great — and then it seemed like we w...re doing it regular-like when I was home. She was a great cook, imaginative and could make something tasty out of almost anything. Since I had eaten everything at the Edge about a hundred times each, I was a happy camper.Colleen had started at the local high school. It worked out well because the bus stopped at the turnoff to my drive. The pickup. I was right. She was sitting at a table in the back with two guys and I sat at the bar and sipped a beer and watched. About a half hour after I got there the band started playing and Diane and one of the guys got up to dance. They danced real close and the guy's hands were all over Diane. I saw him cup a breast, run his hands over her ass and I watched as she pushed her leg at his crotch. While they were dancing two more guys came in and sat down at the table. For the next hour they took turns. Let me get something then I’ll be ready to go.”Moments later Kyle returns with a pistol in his hand. He moves the maps and Jonas’ notebooks back into the safe and locks it. He checks the pistol, making sure it’s loaded, and the safety is on. Satisfied he’s as prepared as he can be he puts the gun in his belt, at the small of his back, and slips on a light jacket. Though it’s somewhat chilly the jacket is more to hide the pistol than anything else. They exit the front door and he locks it behind. He was to be picked up at seven-thirty, he paid the woman as he left and as she walked away he felt a touch of pity for her for he knew that one day she would be found in a gutter, bashed and brutalized for that was the fate of women like herself who were the 'furniture' for hovels like where he was billeted.The road to the inland hospital was a road in name only; it was a mass of pot holes and broken gravel. His transport swayed from left to right as the driver did his best to avoid the more.