These meetings never lasted for very long, twenty minutes at most, during which Adriana would bury her face into her latest financial balance sheet an... never make any sort of eye contact with me. I vaguely thought at first that she was hiding some sort of unpleasant news from me, but the financials always checked out accurately.I, in turn, was also nearly equally preoccupied with my own lists of potential new menu items for testing soon, so I never forced myself upon her, professionally or. Naturally, they were using Tommy as a slave, so the first night they had to camp, the pirates sent Tommy out under guard to gather firewood. The pirates did nothing by halves, so they wanted a big fire, thus, Tommy had to range pretty far from camp to find enough dried fallen wood. This was the rescue opportunity Swift Rat was looking for.Tommy expected to be rescued, so he was on the lookout for help. That way, he was not surprised when his guard suddenly dropped with a crossbow bolt in his. "What do you mean that Angela might be permanently disabled due to the path of the bullet? What kind of surgeon are you that you can't extract a bullet without leaving a permanent disability? Here's what's going to happen! You are going to get on your computer and phones and find a surgeon that CAN remove the second bullet, and do it without the slightest impairment to my adopted daughter."Do you hear me clearly?"I suggest you listen very carefully, because my husband will have you posted to. It was right after they left that we heard two gunshots from the end of the road outside our defensive shell and wards. It was followed by a voice on a bullhorn."O'Connells, this is the Federal Bureau of Paranormal Investigation. You are all under arrest. Come out with your hands up immediately, or we will use all necessary force to bring you out," we heard the voice say.To answer them, we leisurely strolled down the path to the end of the road and our defensive shell. The voice repeated their.