” I laughed, but got to thinking… all we had done for the last several months was fuck some real pussies, “You’re one crazy mother fucker, Pau.... But let’s go for a ride.”I knew of a large, commercial garden just outside of town. I stopped my VW Beetle just long enough for us to jump out and grab three cantaloupes, each. Paul wanted to know why we were stealing the melons and I told him, “We gotta fuck something tonight.”We only took the two ripest ones ino the apartment. It would still be three. Reese ran as fast asshe could. She glanced back, and saw Taylor a few yards behind her, butthe bullies rapidly gained on them.Reese noticed only just then that they were running toward the old littlebridge. Because of the warnings against it, she had contrarily not onlycrossed the bridge numerous times, she'd explored all parts of it."This way!" she shouted, as she turned and ran directly toward thebridge, adding a spurt of speed. She ran onto the bridge and crossed it,and heard Taylor's. Still, it had sworn to tell me, and I could easily enough slip the piece of paper bearing its symbol back in the freezer... a fate that the ornery demon desired to avoid at all costs."I have said that I have some control over those who wear the ring, so that I may keep the unworthy from learning of the way to use the power. However, that is the last resort. First, the ring has to choose you as a worthy vessel. As soon as I materialized in this prison of light, I knew that the ring had selected. She documented her children’s paternity indisputably, as only a modern woman can. But most importantly, she had the file. That surprising file she found in her husband’s hidden wall safe on the day he entered the King’s County Medical Center for the last time.On that day, she had burgled Tom McManus’s home office safe. It was a preemptive strike on her part, a step taken before she called the ambulance. She was not supposed to have the combination or know the safe existed, but she had cracked.