’ So maybe she tries to call Maria a couple times and gets no answer and decides to call someone at the base; that’s another couple minutes. Then,...even acting with my authority, it would have taken her about five minutes to get someone on the phone with the power to send out a search party; and with the information from the tracker guiding them, about an hour to reach the crash site and have someone report back. Then maybe another minute of shock and ‘Mon Dieu’ before Jeanne ran to tell. But these things have never concerned you before now and as such the way he compliments you as he would your mother often comes across as reassuring, you seen the police in his home a few times and you also come across his company in passing. Your grandfather is full of a mystery and the older you get the more you seem to wonder how he was responsible for your parents disappearance. You recalled one occasion where you were outside his office and on the phone, he sounded worried and concerned,. In the five years since Theo's death, Helen had concentrated on building her career. She'd managed to find a few women who might have become friends, but it was hard to reach through her pain to open herself to them. In time she had worked through that, building a small group of women, and some men who were discreet but sympathetic and to whom she could open her frozen heart.As soon as possible she had gone on her own so she could increase her fees and keep a greater share of her consulting. One actually paled. Brad backed up a little, knowing the look. Bad things were coming. “Get off your horse, now!”“You wouldn’t kill a wounded man, would you?” I laughed, causing the man speaking to worry.“If he don’t get off that hoss, I’m letting my brother cut loose with that scattergun. It won’t just be him dying in the dust today. Now’s a good time to make a choice.”They all backed up, leaving the loudmouth all by his lonesome. “I’m giving you a chance, asshole. She didn’t hit your shootin’.