You were friends in high school and started dating when you started college three years ago. This will be the longest amount of time you've spent away...from each other in years. "Mom is freaking out about Courtney and me going wild or something during our vacation," Amber continues. "It's like she just realized we're eighteen now. God. It's all Courtney's fault. Her stupid chest caused all these problems!" "Um...What?" you ask. "Oh, right. I forgot to mention. Courtney got a boob job." You. A few days later I called Hank and suggested we meet at the neighborhood bar and knock down a few beers. I wired myself to record our conversation and met him the next day. We took a booth and ordered our beers then I told him I just needed someone to talk to because I had been feeling so low lately. I confessed to him that since my wife died six years ago I had not been with a woman and it was about to drive me crazy. He told me I needed a plan like he had. That his plan had. .. it’s scenic. Hilly, twisty, curvy; surrounded by plenty of green and little picturesque farms and villages.“I’ll bet this place is really pretty in the Fall,” Rumble rumble rumble. I jerked the wheel back to the road.“Stop looking around, mom. Watch where you’re driving.”I was getting frustrated ... I wanted to SEE ... Chuck was NO fun.By the time we got to Horseheads I was starved and I needed to pee ... gasoline would be good, too.“There’s a Shell Travelers Center, mom.” Chuck said.Shell. Loyalty was one thing Saim was big on and he would not have anyone near him that had not passed some kind of initiation test first. This usually meant doing some dirty job that could be anything from a simple drug run or a carjacking to full on assassination. The sure way of getting them out of the way was to bring their loyalty into question. It wouldn't be that hard to achieve. The slightest suspicion of disloyalty would send Saim's mind into turmoil. Taking away his most trusted crew would.