“After what you two put my ass through? Unlikely.” But he sat all the same, wincing at the touch of leather on his tender flesh. Daylight was fadi...g as he placed himself once more at their mercy. Jaylee padded off to switch on the ceiling’s numerous mini spotlights as he placed his hands behind his back, Vanessa doing the honours of cuffing him—how appropriate. There was a sense of fate clicking into place along with his new wrist bracelets. He wasn’t attached to the chair itself, though for. Jed was as big as a bull and about as strong but there was something weak and easy about him too. Young as Billie was, Jed had never been able to get her goat and she enjoyed reminding him of that fact."You don't have to go gettin' sassy," he snarled. The truck rattled and lurched over a rough spot in the road.Billie-Ann let him cool down awhile, then turned toward him with the pouty smile she'd practiced just that morning in the mirror. "Got any new books, Jed?" There's a good one in the glove. And sure enough, each time You simply led me off the sidewalk and into the darkness of whichever yard we happened to be near until the car had passed, then we continued our journey.I had no sense of time or distance, no thought of where You might be leading me or what might happen after we arrived. I was in a dream that had no beginning or end. My gaze simply rested on You, Sir, as You led me. I tried to match my strides to Yours and trusted You to lead me around anything on the sidewalk. Just guns and how to use them and I don’t know what that makes me . . .’ Jiao interrupted me and said, there was an old Chinese proverb, which itself is based on an even older Buddhist proverb that goes, ‘God gives every man the keys to the gates of Heaven. But the same key also unlocks the gates of Hell. ‘How you live your life determines which one of those gates that set of keys unlocks,’ she said. ‘Someone else said much the same thing, although using entirely different words,’ she.