Jake interrupted her thoughts, "Where is he?"Alice decided to tell Jake all of the truth, "Sheriff Barker, the one who ran you out of town tonight, wo...ldn't leave me alone. He kept coming out here when Jim would be gone and made crude suggestions. Finally, Jim had enough and went in to town to confront Barker. Jim never returned. I went into town that afternoon and asked the sheriff if he knew where Jim was and he claimed he hadn't seen Jim for a couple of weeks. I talked to folks I knew what. It's great to hear your voice." Do you miss me too? You didn't say you miss me." She sounded needy again."Glory, I need to be honest. I love you very much. However, you know about the situation I have with the other women. I know we agreed not to talk about it, but it's a fact. I miss you, but it sounds like you miss me much more, because you're at home alone. You're on the outs with your boyfriend. Meanwhile, I'm surrounded by love and affection and attention all the time. This house is always. It wasn't even Axorie who had taken her self-worth as the smart one here, since Axorie wasn't smart in this universe, or no smarter than any average genius. It was that stupid Scholar's Guild. Stupid dumb scholars and their stupid dumb books. She blubbered into her arm until she realized how rediculous she was being and started to giggle. Steetch wrapped her up in a giant hug, and squeezed her until sha had a hard time getting a breath, which just made her chuckle harder, blowing snot all over. Freddie was another one of my hired hands. I’ve known him since we were kids. He’s not so bad for a Mexican kid. After he did a stint in the California prison system for autotheft, he came back home to Nevada. We hooked back up and he’s been doing jobs forme ever since.I was sitting there thinking about what I was going to do to this deadbeat when I hadhim kneeling on the floor in front of me when I saw his front door open. He stepped outand his wife Jill followed him onto the front step to.