And Marcus is right, we are family and we are concerned about him as a friend and as a member of our family.”I paused for effect and then continued....��And we do carry guns.”I held out my hand and he took it and shook it. I asked him to sit with us and Bosco laughed as he walked away. Teri didn’t leave.“Geoffrey, if you ever feel the need to talk to someone in this family that is not completely batshit crazy, I’m the one.” Teri patted Geoffrey on the arm.“True. Teri is the only one of the family. I sighed and shook my head, another day, it was time to get going. My long nightly contemplation had shown me that I didn’t know enough about Rose and what had happened to her, and I had decided I needed to know more. As soon as I woke up I had called Samuel and told him that I would be late and why, that I needed to see Rose. I only had to find her first… I suspected that I would find her wherever Sean was, he had after all been even more protective than he usually was. I started a simple. And because she was special to Him, he got a room close by in the same town she lived in and he knew she would be relaxed and hot to do whatever HE wanted done that night and all-night long and every time he saw her from this day forward. She vowed to do “everything” and “anything” he wanted to please him.She arrived at the hotel on time as promised and he opened the room door and said You look lovely and I am keeping my promise to take you to dinner so let’s go and with that he took her hand. I carried them to the kitchen and opened the cafeteria size - stainless steel dishwasher. As the others finished eating, they too took their dishes and tableware to the kitchen to put them in the dishwasher.Sheila’s notebook, pen and pencil-pouch, were on a table behind me and I took them to her.“You don’t have to try and write down everything we talk about, just be sure you get the numbers down when we start talking about acres, heads of cattle - and money.”“I do shorthand, too. I’ll get it.