”She smiled at Seth’s reaction, and indicated the beautiful, ebony-skinned young woman standing beside her. “And this is my daughter, Meta. It w...s she who first spoke with your Tia, and they became friends. Perhaps it would have been different if it had been you or one of your young males that had made first contact. But we are pleased that it turned this way, and we would be friends with you.”Seth, as had Tia and Leana, felt immediately at ease with this majestic woman. Tall and graceful, she. From the looks of their dash from the mouth of the pass, I figured they were going to run for at least 20 miles before they figured they were safe from me. Of course, I would shoot any of them if I ever met them again, but Sanchez was the one I really wanted.I had no idea as to how clever Sanchez might be, so I decided that my safest bet was to treat the chase after him like I would treat chasing an Apache. The only difference this would make would be that it would take me a little longer to. ’ Now, to be brutally honest, the local Hunt was not entirely my thing. They all loved horses for a start and thought anyone who didn’t was a heretic. They threw lavish balls and fund raising events and since they were mostly rich or aspired to be, they always wore expensive clothes and drank industrial quantities of champagne. Not that any of that was bad, it was just that they were all Vicky’s friends rather than mine. The good thing about them was that they were, as the landed rich often. Well enough that his goons were waiting in my apartment as I returned triumphantly home after the heist. They took me for a car ride.My feet barely touched the ground as they dragged me from the car to Belli's office. I was intimidated, to say the least. Belli is Italian for beautiful, and was therefore an extremely ironic name for him. He held up a finger at me, and finished a phone call. I didn't know whether to be insulted or glad to have a moment to try and prepare myself. In either case, I.