”“I know. I just strongly encourage you to make good on the implied promise. Call it a reward for saving NIKA no end of trouble.”“A reasonable...request between friends.”“Permission to step completely out of line?”“That’s part of the remit of being part of the ‘Kitchen Cabinet’.”“You and Eve? It happened, didn’t it?”“Are you fishing, or do you think you know something?”“I suggested it, remember? And I’m not exactly fishing, nor do I think I know something. I’m just asking. But I think you just. Jake very carefully, under the watchful eye of his girlfriend, cuffed my wrists together behind the aspen, leaving me with my back pressed against the papery white bark.And then, they both moved back and sat on the trunk of a fallen tree and watched.Watched as I struggled with embarrassment and regret, pulling frantically at my cuffs for several seconds as a surge of panic washed through me. What the fuck was I doing? How did I let myself get so out of control? They must think I was a total. Although it was doubtless expensive and had this certain French restaurant in the US charm it was in some way unique and silent. I sat across from mum and as I had taken place after I had been helping her getting on the table she looked at me and gave me that sweet, little smile she had developed since we had brought our relationship to that level. Mum took my hand and pressed it. I looked into her breathtaking eyes and knew that I would do anything for her she would ever ask me to do. I stroke. The best the Marshals could figure, was that they were trying to steal Sparky and maybe kidnap Sally. When they saw you walking toward the barn, we know that Spiros cut the horse's throat to quiet him down. He then waited and opened fire on you when he thought you were close enough. We will really never know why they were out there, but that is the theory the local law enforcement put together. I'm sorry, Jon, it had to be you that killed them, but it was them or you." Yea I know Jerry, but how.