If they weren’t currently surrounded by the rest of their platoon, they would be packed together like sardines, the smell of Hayden’s cigarettes c...inging to them like grease.“Yeah, well, maybe if you stand here long enough, he’ll let you watch.” Dwayne handed over his own canteen and a Snickers bar he had won playing poker a couple nights back. “You look like shit.”“Still better looking than you.” Darren coughed, then accepted the water. He had drained his already over a mile back. He knew he. ’ Jansen had set the cigar in the ashtray and forgotten it. Smoke swirled its way to the ceiling like tobacco incense. ‘I’m not going to ask where she’s at.’ ‘I wasn’t going to tell you,’ said Moe. ‘I have a good guess.’ ‘Forget it, Jansen. Save your guesswork for the crosswords.’ Jansen shuffled papers on his desk from side-to-side like he was suddenly the maid, and then met Moe’s eye, man to man. ‘I don’t like your type, Gafferson. A pretty boy who thinks he’s tough while he’s snooping. When she saw Hawk she fainted.”“Shit! Brenda, she has a photographic memory. She would’ve immediately recognized Hawk. Has she come to yet?”“She’s groggy, but I think so.”“Then let me talk to her.”Moments later he heard his long-time friend say, “Jason, what in the hell is going on here. I find Maria living in this beautiful and expensive ranch house and she’s the co-wife of a dead murderer. How did you let her get in this predicament?”“Consuela, slow down. Do you trust me?”“Of course I. ‘Better to cover your body with.’ I blushed as he sat back. ‘I cut it shortly after I came back here. I have kept it cut ever since. I couldn’t handle having it that long again knowing that you were the last one to run your fingers through it.’ Which told me that he hadn’t been with anyone else since that night, at least not until he came back up here and had it cut. ‘Get on with the story.’ Suzanne complained. I looked over at my sister in law and smiled. ‘Okay, so anyway.’ ‘I couldn’t take my.