She sat there expressionless. Mesmerised by the wreckage of her whole family unitWhile all this was going on, the other 6 figures just stood there. Ov...rseeing the brutal treatment of this pathetic family. The plan was going so perfect.'Now listen to me cunts. I'm about to leave this room with your beautiful daughter. If you want her back alive, I suggest you don't move. My friends will be staying here so unless you want a bullet through your skulls, I suggest you stay seated'No one moved. He. We all knew better, but some couldn’t handle the tension without their Camels or Luckies. Smoking puts carbon monoxide in your blood and that reduces night vision. The movies show guys hit by snipers shooting at the glow of a cigarette, but the real reason is that smoking is like advertising your presence. A cigarette can be smelled from hundreds of meters away if the air is moving slowly, and in the mangroves it doesn’t move much at all. Finally, there’s no practical way to keep your. Oh shit, he thought, mimicking Adele’s earlier thoughts. ‘Hey Adele, how are you?’ asked Mary, draping herself over Travis, who clearly did not wish to show his affection for her right now. ‘Fine, thanks,’ said Adele, hoping that terse answers would drive Travis and Mary away faster. She hoped that Jake couldn’t see how anxious and upset she was. ‘Why don’t you introduce us?’ queried Travis in an almost frighteningly icy and calm voice. ‘Oh, silly me,’ began Adele, attempting to right herself,. The summer before his junior year of high school, he ended up moving away and I assumed our paths would never cross again. Imagine my surprise a little over ten years later when Mike once again became our mutual connection. Josh moved back to Georgia with his wife and young son and had reached out to us for a place to rent from our property management business. We hooked him up with an apartment at a discounted rate and our friendly association resumed.I was taken back by the man he had become..