.. well I can't believe I may not get to see him again, at least maybe not as myself anyway. I just wish he was here." I understand." Agreed Jade."You...know sometimes," continued Trisha, "We would just lie in bed at night and tell stories to each other. Just little things we had thought of during the day to make each other laugh or smile. He was always better at it than I was. He used to work much later than I did but every night he would come home with a new Trisha's bedtime story he had. You can have all of them.’ They walked straight toward me. I put the twenty-two in my left hand and the Glock in my right. At ten feet range, I fired off the remainder of shots into their faces. They were now all dead. I stood up and looked around. Nobody took a shot at me. I put a ski mask over my face, and walked over to the groaning woman. When I stood over her she seemed to be a teenager. She was naked and bleeding from where he had raped her. I asked her, ‘Where did they put your. I’m sorry you’re having second thoughts. I worried that you might.”“I don’t regret anything, silly” she said as she slapped his arm, “except the fact I fell asleep before I could kiss you good night.”She might not regret things now but give her 10 minutes and I bet she will, Brock thought.“You gave me a very nice kiss good night when I carried you to bed,” Brock said. “Didn’t your Mom tell you how you got up here?”Meredith raised her eyebrows.“Mom has been out and about since before I woke up,”. Personally, I would like to see the monopoly end, but I couldn't figure out how to do it without giving the fanatical hate groups like The True Believers access to interplanetary or interstellar travel.We'd even had to resort to clandestine operations against several groups, The True Believers being the most significant, but we still were not safe, and I doubted if we ever would be. Mars Enterprises ruled Mars, and was close to ruling Earth in all really important matters. I was dead set.