As we walked back towards the ranch, the girls all listened as Penny and I discussed what we had learned. I made a mental note to experiment with Vick...e later. I was curious if my shield was blocking her ability to read me as well."How hard is it to keep a shield like that going?" Penny asked. "Could you keep it up all the time?" I don't think so. I have to focus pretty hard right now," I replied."Maybe if you practiced, it would get easier," Natalie suggested. "Things usually get easier with. Lord knows nobody should ever have to live through what he and his sister lived through, but I have to clear this case. Based on what I’ve just seen, I’ll start looking more intensively at other possibilities, but I still need to speak to Anton. I need to look into his eyes as he tells me what happened. You call it interrogation, but I call it simply pursuing and verifying the facts in evidence. I know how juries work, Mr. Schuler, and I can’t even imagine he’d be found guilty of anything if he. I stood there a moment trying to decide what to do. My first thought was to storm into the living room and kick both bitches out, and then reason surfaced in my mind. I had been respected for my planning ability in the military. I was one of the youngest Colonels in the service and really upset a lot of people when I decided to retire. I ran a multi million-dollar financial empire during my service and I still ran it. I needed a plan and I needed to be sure my assets were still protected before. Shit, I was scared! Several people, including Mr. Jones, yelled at him to stop, but he never slowed down. He was less than 10 feet away when he raised that mug to take a swing at me.I had waited as long as I could. I flipped off the retainer that kept my gun from falling out of the holster, drew, and fired. That broken mug was headed for my face when I pulled the trigger. I jumped back, not having any idea whether or not I had hit my attacker, but just intent on getting out of the way of that.