Fate was listening and was not at all amused at this! As she prepared to lead her beloved horse on the continuing journey, now well over half way comp...eted, she had no idea what lay around the next bend in the track. In a few minutes, the starry-eyed and romantically battle hungry girl would have had her fill of conflict!Ahead of her, as she rounded a bend in the road were three men. She was used, by this time, to encountering strangers along the way and had long ago lost all traces of her. I don’t know. Could you?”Jim seemed to expect the question and was ready with an answer, “Yes. If I loved her, and if I knew she loved me, I could. If I knew that her involvement with this other guy was not a threat to our relationship and, if I knew that it did not mean that she did not love me…Yes, I think I could share a woman that I truly loved. If that truly was what it took for her to be happy. Yes, I think I could.”Jim took a long sip of his beer, and then looked at me. “Cindy, have you. I didn't come down here to force you to quit, but it doesn't surprise me a bit that you'd want to. You have no stomach for real challenges, especially ones where failure is a very real possibility. Not your style. All you enjoy are sure things where you can impress everyone with how good you are. I fell for it once, but I know better now. We still need to talk, to work out how we're going to stop this thing you're doing before it tears your whole family apart."Kyle was thinking. He was tired. ... " ooh ooh that smell..can't you smell that smell"... Yes, yes I can..." ooh ooh that smell, the smell of death surrounds you.." "' To add to the intoxicating rush I was experiencing I took the pack of smokes out of my pocket, hit the bottom of it a few times on the dashboard and ripped off the plastic. I pulled a cigarette out of the pack with my lips and grabbed the lighter from the ashtray. Ohh, sweet sweet menthol. Remembering the beer I'd taken out before I cracked it open and was.