‘And?’ My voice was starting to get louder. ‘They’re paying for grad school. They set it up as a scholarship. And I’ll be working for them f...r part of the breaks. The scholarship covers the Ph.D. After that, I have a five-year contract with them. ‘It’s like locking up a basketball player with a long-term contract coming right out of high school before he gets to be so expensive later they won’t be able to afford to keep him.’ Nice analogy. I was a little surprised he knew about that. Still,. I was just getting to the top end of the park when out of the blue the heavens opened and I soon realised the pitfalls of wearing white shorts with nothing underneath as my shorts very soon became totally transparent however as I reached the park entrance I thought I would sneak into the undergrowth to shield from the shower until it stopped.I can’t say I was actually being shielded as the dripping from the trees was just as hard as the rain fall but thought I would stick around before. The seatbelt that saved her life also created a large bruise across her chest. Nothing felt broken. Groaning, she worked on exiting the wrecked car.Liv crawled into the ruined rear hatch. She was almost out of the car when the memory of her pursuer flashed into her head, like a bad dream. Liv immediately turned around and used the Surefire to locate the Steyr, which had lodged itself under the gas pedal during the crash. The last full magazine took longer to find. It was stuck under the. . Wendy’s flight ... it all came out while we were sitting in the folding metal chairs in the lobby of that 1950’s brick one story building laughingly called the Sheridan County tower.They finished.A long pause ensued.Longer.Longer.Still not long enough.Oops.Too long.And Karen said, “So ... she’s NOT really your wife.”“You got it,” I said.Wendy said, “Except in Colorado ... in Colorado ... he’s mine.”“That’s easy,” She turned to me, “Hairy, stay out of Colorado.”“Yes, ma’am.”“So polite is my.