Why would you bury stolen jewels unless you had plans to use them as bargaining chips, and if you had that kind of plans why start shooting? That was ... big reason why I'd gone to the insurance company; a cop who thought with his gun hadn't seemed like the kind who'd be receptive to my sort of proposition."Mm," said Monaghan noncommittally. He shrugged delicately. "In any case, the one person who knew where the gems are is no longer in a position to tell us. The soil samples narrow us down to. I flipped on ESPN and had just managed to deflate my third leg when she came bounding down the stairs and said, “I am famished, where can we get a good bite to eat?” So we headed out the door and I drove to a local Indian buffet and we ate and ate. She had so many questions about the area where I lived and she laughed and was so real that I found myself thinking less and less about her as a niece and more and more she was just a friend.We drove around a while, looking at some of the places. Sipping my drink as it heats my throat on its travels down I turn around on my stool and observe the crowd. Looking for those pretty faces that just call to me. There are many pretty women here ... But I’m looking for something particular. A slight innocent perhaps. Then again I may be looking in the wrong place all together. The thought of looking for an innocent woman in a bar gives me something to chuckle at while taking another warm sip, “Stahhh, that’s good stuff.” Then I saw her, a cute. “We could,” Liz said.“I checked with Dayton and Bobbi,” I added. “They’re willing to follow behind us. I thought you might want to do something fun tonight.”“Oh, I do,” Liz said. “Except I’m going to have a doctor digging around my puss in the morning.”“I thought you might want to do something else fun tonight since that is out of the question,” I amended.“Like what?” Liz asked.“Like anything you want to do,” I said. “It’ll be eight or so before the parents are back. We can go out to dinner or.