I was down to my last fifty dollars. I needed a plan. And Adele came up with a plan. She would clean out the diner’s cash after its busiest day on S...turday and claim she was robbed. The plan worked to perfection and the proceeds were just over five-hundred dollars giving me the needed stake. Oh, the plan worked because, the town Marshall, Adele’s cousin, was dumb as a sack of rocks. The poker games were held in a barn on a horse farm just outside Powell. The host, a distant-kin of Adele, did. As I got up, I looked around, then late, very late a flag was thrown. The Baltimore coaching staff erupted in protest, but it wasn’t even close, there was contact long before I touched the ball. The referee stepped up and turned on his microphone.“Pass interference on the defense, number forty two. The ball will be placed at the spot of the foul resulting in an automatic ... first down.” he ended.We had caught a break, a gift of sorts, we were determined to make the most of it. Several plays. It was decided that Megan would call from the cell phone she took from the house. She would give Craig one minute to call back on the cutout number because they wanted to catch him completely off-guard, with no chance to bring in a lawyer. Thus rattled, they thought there was a better chance he would say something incriminating. Marty would stay at Dex's until the call was completed. If he refused the immediate callback, they would not try again.Morgan was delegated to pick up her grandparents,. Can’t be easy.“How was your day?” asked Melody, mechanically going through the routine of undressing Edwin. The little guy liked to put up a fight when that happens, but he didn’t stand a chance. She had him pinned down, in the most loving way possible, on his changing bed. We were like a practiced surgical team. I’m pretty sure the pair of us could put a diaper on a coked up grizzly, and rub his balls with ointment for an encore.“I’ve had better. My department acted weird to a potential hire.