Flashback – Jack – in the hospitalI finally got hold of a nurse and asked, “Hey, I’m feeling better so can I get out of here and head to my ro...m?”She grinned at me and said, “Sorry Sgt. Reynolds, but your room is occupied right now so you have to stay here until tomorrow.”I complained, “Occupied, what the hell do you mean?”She teased, “Come on Sgt. you know what’s going on in your room. Don’t play dumb with me.”Then I realized what she was talking about - Banzai was getting ‘taken care of’.I. Rachel was thirty, I have no idea what she did and we came back here. Finally, Dana was forty-one, a pharma rep and we did it out there on the beach." Sex on the beach sucks, Daddy. You get sand everywhere," Nikki laughed."I thought you were a virgin, my dear daughter," Ben shot back."Of course I am. I've just heard about it." Had enough yet?" Nope." As drunk as she was, Nikki was intensely focused. She was not going to lose. And actually hearing what a stud her father was made her proud in. She shook her head and about-faced out the door. James closed it after her. It was sure from her questioning that Doris had called her after their spat that afternoon. It would have bothered James if the inquisition had been more of a challenge. Since it wasn't, he hoisted a skillet out of the cupboard. After a quick hamburger he would try his luck at the grocery store once again.James pulled into a parking space in the lot of the Thrifty Mart wondering if he should have made a list in advance.. I also knew that it didn’t help much that she was four months pregnant with our second child. Clara was sitting beside Gabby holding our year old son, Henri, who was currently fast asleep.“What are we going to do about it?” Gabby enquired in a voice that trembled.“I’m going to have to go and see who it was,” I told Gabby bluntly. “I’ll try and be careful, but there really isn’t a choice in the matter. We were a few miles down the slope when we heard the shot. That puts the shooter within three.