You fooled me. They're the only thing that seems to get a man's interest," she sighed."Wrong. There's a lot about Bonnie Cosworth that I find very att...active. In fact, I've been trying to work up the courage to ask you out." You have?" she said in surprise. "Well ... why don't you?" I think I just did," Zach said. "It would be someplace nice and quiet with good food and a decent wine list." I'd love to," she gushed. "You name the time and place and I'll be there." Well, how about six o'clock. ." but before the bar tender could finish that, a big hand landed between Alex and Lisa, holding a few bills."It's ok, I'll buy them a drink, give us three shots"the bar tender poured three small glasses, and turned away.Lisa and Alex slowly took a glass each, shaking, but smiling thankfully at the tall man."cheers" he said, raising his glass, and all three drunk their shot.Lisa could feel the warm liquid sliding down into her stomach, and a sudden rush of heat. The music seemed to be playing. "I couldn't wait to win my emancipation and get out of that hell hole. The people running it wanted one thing, and that was the check they got every month, in my name, from the Social Security Administration. I was just that to them – a canceled check."That shut her up about the orphan thing.As we ate I kept thinking about the name I got off the lone survivor of the attack at Atlantis. Hawk needed to know that the shooter named someone much too close to him, but what would he do with such. Then on the last two laps, he opened up and tried to run like hell. He had shaved about 45 seconds off his best time! A 17:50 run. That would have put him in third place in the last meet.With his new tactics in mind, Tom began the race, and hung back with the fastest guys on his team. Two of them looked over at Tom and nodded. The group of about nine boys just tooled along, each glancing around at each other, gauging the potential competition and jockeying for position when the time for the.