Expecting his arrival, it wasn't seconds from the time he rang the bell until the two attendants, one male, the other female, opened the front door of...the big, brick, Victorian house.The male attendant disappeared while the female led him back to an isolated room in the middle of the house. It contained only one piece of furniture, a large comfortable chair in which he found his place immediately. Entering the room then was the male attendant with a martini, freshly prepared to his taste.Both. With him. He’s going down no matter what. It’s your choice.’ The redhead didn’t say anything. She wanted the two cops to go away. She wanted everything to go away. She couldn’t win. If she told them what she knew, Big Eddie would come after her anyway. Or some of his men would. There was no way out. She was fucked either way. ‘We’ve pieced everything together anyway, Katherine,’ Jeffries persuasively continued in a soft voice. ‘Whether you help us or not, this hood is going down. He’s going to. ” Zuri’s words came out fast, tumbling over each other in her excitement. “I mean, they probably could, but it would have been a lot of work. Much easier to mine it.”More confused than ever, I felt my frown deepen as I struggled for understanding. “Mine, not ... drill?”She nodded. “Exactly. I just finished my last assay. It confirms everything I’ve found so far.” Responding to a silent command, the facto that had been following her wheeled and turned as it brought its four upper limbs. He gave me a copy of what Tiny had figured, along with the additional cost of the re-supply we sent. It would be fair to think there wouldn't be a re-supply for our intro into the truck races, so I used that figure and about half of the revenue we did for our first exposure. It made sense to try as, with very low volume, we should break even within three races.I called the Lakeland team owner as he had trucks and had bought two truck frames and a motor already. He thought we would do all right,.