‘He’s not in here,’ murmured a high, but distinctly masculine, voice. Alaster leapt out of the bathroom. ‘Surrender!’ He leveled the gun at ...he intruders. Jared went suddenly pale, dropping his wires to the ground. The lock picks clinked softly against each other as they hit the ground. Kiana looked up at Alaster, one eyebrow raised as it say ,’Really?’ Alaster clicked the safety on, putting the gun on the side. Jared laughed nervously, bending down to pick up what he affectionately referred. ‘I’ll hurt you! I don’t want to! But I can’t help it!’ ‘Yes you can, Liana,’ he insisted. ‘Just calm down. Calm down and you’ll see. You’re you again. You don’t have to worry.’ ‘I killed them!’ she sobbed, finally relaxing a little bit in his arms. ‘I killed Star and her friend.’ ‘Cora,’ he told her. ‘Star and Cora. And you didn’t kill them.’ ‘They’re right there,’ she sputtered, her chest heaving as sobs continued to wrack her body. ‘They’re dead because they tried to help me.’ ‘Liana, just. There will be more to come,’ Bo said. ‘Good thinking pal, I think the same way. Lindy you’re being targeted.’ ‘I believe you Waldo,’ she said, playing with the hair on Waldo’s nape. Bo almost dropped the bomb attempting to throw up his hands in disgust. That Lindy was such a slut. Waldo dropped Bo off near the docks and told Bo to heave the bomb out into deep water and not attempt to defuse it because it had been professionally assembled. ‘I’ll take Lindy home to my place for tonight. It will. ‘It was close, but they think they’ve saved it. You’re going to Japan this afternoon, so don’t get too comfortable.’ After the flight to the hospital in Japan, I was placed in a ward with twenty other guys suffering from wounds serious enough that Saigon couldn’t take care of us. I was feeling pissed about being away from my unit. I was pissed that I had done something so stupid as to step on a tripwire and almost get my leg blown off, and was also feeling pretty sorry for myself. I was just.