It ended after a couple blocks at an old brick well. A "Wishing Well" according to the sign perched on top. Under those words was a notice that all ...oney tossed in the well went to the city's orphanage.Paul thought he could manage a quarter for a good cause. First, he thought about wishing for a new job. Then he realized that what he really wanted was a life. He thought about the friends, the family he didn't have, and he wished that he could have them. Even if he was such a loser that he. At work the second mutual fund, Resurrection II had been offered and the initial response was somewhat overwhelming with the funds that the investors were sending in. Trying to find investments that were temporarily out of favor was helped somewhat by the current correction in the stock market. He did find some stocks he thought were overpriced and purchased some puts on those stocks.Healthcare stocks, chemical stocks and financial stocks along with generic drug manufacture stocks were all in. He was eyeing Erin from head to toe and smiling in a way that had her trembling now in outright terror. He looked at the passport and then took out a large silver lighter from his back pocket. He held its flame to the document and then tossed the burning pages into a pail at his feet.Erin screamed into her gag, slobbering from her mouth as she tried to shout and protest what was happening to her. The judge pounded his gavel, “Quiet you disobedient entitled little bitch, or I will let the guards. There were a few tense moments, afew snide remarks that stopped just short of actual harassment. No onewanted to test the Major, so things maintained an uneasy civility.All that time Mike Collins watched his new partner carefully. He had knowna lot of cops in his twenty plus years on the street, and Megan was a cop.More than that, she was a good cop.They were six weeks into their partnership, working the night shift,before they had their first really serious call, a domestic dispute thathad.