Sam had played baseball and she watched a bit of that. Apparently the team from South Valley had already played and the two teams on the field at the ...oment were from Center itself and some place on the East Coast. It certainly wasn't a pitcher's duel, either. It was only the fifth inning and both teams had already scored six runs each. As she watched the batter pushed a hit just beyond a sprawling second baseman and the runner on second scored easily.There was women's softball on an adjoining. .. Mark... I would like you to meet Luna," the Madam said to them and their eyes devoured the gorgeous figure standing before them. Luna looked to be in her late 20's or maybe early 30's. She had a slight French accent which Nic knew Mark would lose his mind over and a smile that would stop traffic.Luna went straight over to Nicole and kissed her on each cheek in that typical classy European way then held her hand and said hello as if they were old friends. She then turned to Mark and did the. "They're ... burning fields, houses, everything. They're burning, looting ... even raping the women."My attention focused and I inched towards her. "How terrible!" I murmured, acting my part. "Is that so? They're raping the women?" I nodded sympathetically and repeated the phrase privately, savoring its sound, liking the way that the words sounded in my ears. Suddenly the future seemed rosy and I was immensely pleased that there were ringlets decorating Christine's brown hair. They were nice.. “He was pretty upset that it had all come to this. Apparently, he was in to a big-time bookie. The guy had come to threaten Carlos and had spotted Sara. Carlos had used up all his friendly warnings and the next visit he got from the bookie would have been very painful, so he made a deal. Things were happening too fast for him, so he got drunk.”“Yea well that was obvious.”“He said he got drunk to get over what he was doing and by getting drunk it gave him the courage to do what he was about to.