Where is the money now?" I have the account number with me and I have the tracking number of the bank in Branson. I want to give it back to Orrin. Wou...d you or Bastion talk to him? He may not want to talk to me and I wouldn't blame him but I do need to apologize." I can do that. Is the phone working here in the room?" No, it was an added cost. I'm here with limited funds." I'll call headquarters on the radio from the van and have Bob get in touch with Orrin. It is lunch time. We'll go eat. Bob. Bobby snapped the cylinder back into place."Care to try another story?" he asked.Van was beginning to lose the ability to have a coherent thought."Why did Julie let you go, Van?" said Bobby insistently."Because... because when I woke up she was lying on the floor, man. She fucking killed herself, man! I didn't do anything to her, I swear!" Well now, we know she didn't shoot herself, don't we?" he said, gesturing with the pistol with its one spent round. "So if you didn't kill her, how was she. ‘The Almighty will watch o’er me, Mother. Don’t let yerself get intae a state o’er this.’ Garreth told her, as he put his arm around her and held her to him, doing his best to convince her. Julia’s look never showed a relief, but she decided to let the issue go and not spoil the festivities. She took Garreth and Peadair’s arms and walked with them into the gardens, now decorated with strips of MacLeod tartan and juniper sprigs tied to them. *************************************** Stuart. I just know it’s all true. You want to know how? When Beth looks into my eyes, she sees a man who wants her. She had forgotten what that was like because of you. When she puts her hands on my arms, she feels a man who is working out to make his time with her better. When she feels how hard I am, she knows that she is more important than porn in a dark room. When my dick is all the way inside her, she knows that I am with her and not in the middle of a fantasy. And you know what? That makes Beth.