"At least you have me on your side," John said.Vicki said, "That's good to know." I know it is going to be rough," John said. "We're going to have to ...oordinate our efforts." What are your plans for today?" I going to get the kids and bring them back here. We're going to make apple juice today," John answered. "We'd do it at John's farm, but all of the canning equipment is here."She placed the two halves of the cantaloup in two bowls. Grabbing two spoons, she carried the bowls over to the. ” He pulled me in and I saw that he had been crying. But for what reason. “Why have you locked yourself up in here?” I asked sitting down on my bed. He climbed up on the ladder. “No real reason really.” “Well you’re going to need to tell me some reason so I can leave to tell Mike why you won’t be taking the wheel tonight when we get to Utah.” I teased a bit “Fine I’ll try to tell you a good reason why I’ve locked myself in here.” He came down off the ladder and sat next to me on my bed. Taking. ** * Guido was on the warpath. ‘What do you mean you can’t find that bastard Ruiz?’ ‘He’s disappeared. Our contact at the station doesn’t know where he is. The official explanation is that he has gone on vacation to Puerto Rico but we don’t buy that.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Because he hasn’t left the country in the last twenty four hours. He moved his wife before the apartment was bombed and now we can’t find either of them.’ ‘Don’t stand there telling me that you can’t find either of them! I want them. I wasn’t Dominari. I didn’t have flames for breath like other dragons. I had too much of my mother’s water in me.And what did it matter? I was useless with these manacles. I couldn’t protect my children. Couldn’t fly them away to safety. So why was my son staring at me like that? He grinned at me. I shifted, feeling so embarrassed draped in jewelry and nothing else.“You don’t,” said Zianamilizzi. “You don’t, Ambassssador. Let me get you and your friends to safety. I still have some power. I can.