Instead, Derek took a step forward, "The gun, Dana." His voice was more demanding now. Even though she knew he'd be dead in a few minutes, Dana still ...ound his eyes oddly hypnotic. She glanced at them a half-second too long and he lunged forward, grasping the gun by the barrel. Dana squeezed the trigger.It didn't fire. The safety was still engaged. One hand caught her wrists, pushing them up over her head. The other drove into her gut, knocking the wind out of her. They struggled for a few. Moving so quickly that the four Safehaven men would later swear they never even saw him move, Dent drew his sword and struck Boraic squarely across the neck severing the head from the body in one stroke. The head rolled on the ground in front of the still upright body, eyelids fluttering and mouth moving as if gasping for breath. For what seemed like minutes but was in reality only a second or two, the headless corpse remained upright and then slowly toppled to the side.Bending down to wipe the. He didn’t, but he did ask me to attend acattleman’s convention next week. It was a step, so Iaccepted.Coming home from school on Monday, I helped Don’s fatherprepare hogs for market. Coming in the house, Bobo callsand begins to tell me how he could fill the void in mylife. I hung up.I felt good as Don and I drove to the convention. It wasthe first time we had been together in ages. The hotelwas plush, and as usual the cattleman association wentall out. Instead of being alone. The 3 of them got along very well and Pateven became a sort of father figure for them and made sure they weresafe. He even prepared meals for them once in awhile and they knew theycould come to him for anything. So it was a really good arrangement. Andturned out to be more than Pat could have ever imagined.Mary was a nervous wreck. She was very confused with something she hadseen Pat do. She had seen him fingering some of Kim's lingerie that shehad placed in the clothes hamper. After several.