"She asked, "You didn't sleep with her, did you?" With a concerned look and tone.I told her, "Nope. I'm getting to know her."That evening I called Bar... and asked if she'd settled back in after the long weekend. She had, and other than some interruptions with Connie we spent the next two hours on the phone. We did virtually the same all week and decided that she and Connie would come down to my house the coming Saturday for a cookout and some time enjoying the sun on my back deck. I could hardly. If not, we?ll do things differently.??I?ll cooperate. ?Stand on the scale.??I?m really to be sold by the pound???Kilo, actually. Most of our buyers are metric.? Looking down at the scale, ?Fifty-eight. You should bring $10,000 to $20,000 a kilo, less than your weight in gold these days, but about the same as a winning race horse, though not a derby winner. What are you 5?9? or 10???Yes.??We?ll call it 1.77 meters. You can sit down.?The beautiful blond woman did. The eyes of all three men. I could not see his body through the brush, but I had no trouble seeing his feet and ankles. The moccasins were definitely not of Mescalero style, so I had definite proof that these were the feet of an enemy. At this point, the person of interest was less than 20 feet away, so I was confident of hitting my target if I shot at his ankles.I lined up a shot and fired. Of course, I hit where I had aimed, as I was confident of doing. At this range and where the bullet hit, the foot was blasted. I didn't even want to go back home, my own place felt desecrated and defiled. My phone was blowing up with texts from both Finn and Linda but I was past caring what happened with them now. Finally I paid for my coffee and left. The first thing I did after going home was dump the sheets in the garbage can. I needed to get rid of the bed but I'd do that later. For now I needed to rest. I dragged a clean pillow and blanket onto the couch and put on a movie, just to fill the empty space. I sat on.