As the lamp chased the darkness to the corners of the hold, Abner saw the boy ahead and moved towards him. ‘Grab a bucket,’ Thomas instructed, fli...ping a pail and settling upon the bottom. Abner followed the example. ‘Where ya from?’ Tom asked. ‘Needham.’ Thomas cocked his head while dropping his brow. ‘Needham?’ Abner’s mind scrambled. ‘What’s odd about that?’ ‘Because it’s inland.’ ‘So?’ ‘So what are you doing on a ship?’ ‘I told you,’ insisted Abner, ‘I want to be a sailor.’ Tom’s head. ’ Anne threw out as she saw the effect Grace’s words had on him. Don slowly turned away from the two and gathered up Anne and Grace before they quickly walked away. ‘This ain’t over ass hole.’ He heard yelled out behind him and Anne gently laid her hand on his arm. She could feel how tense he was and wondered why this, of all places, someone would do that. Walking towards the security office, Don heard the last words but also felt Anne’s small hand on his arm. It calmed him and he noticed she. First, she was a dead ringer for the Farendass woman, which she did explain as sharing the same father. Second, she was a bad-ass bodyguard to Benni. Qi had witnessed her nail a man to the wall with his feet dangling off of the ground and his tongue dangling out of his mouth as he was being strangled. The man had been fast, but Ree was remarkably swift. Only the need to interrogate the suspected marine assassin kept him alive for the moment. Qi had no doubt that the man was spaced later.The. But this time was different. Fear ran through me as the clock hit 10:30pm and I punched the time clock to leave and go outside. When I opened the front door of our building and looked for him in the parking lot I didn't see his motorcycle so I thought maybe he was just running a little late, the next thing I know a white commercial sized van, completely bare of any graphics or lettering pulls up to the front and my husband gets out of the drivers side. He walks me to the back and doesn't say.