He applied more suction to her engorged nipple, painting it with his saliva and gently biting her areola, clawing at her soft breasts and sinking his ...ingers up to the knuckle in her yielding fat. She pressed him up against the rock, trapping him beneath a mountain of fur and flesh, her seething passage massaging him in cruel waves with its relentless squeezing and sucking.She chuckled as he gasped into her bosom, her hot breath tickling his skin, mouthing and kissing his jugular as he strained. The smoke was getting thick. It was beginning to obscure his vision. He turned on the light of his walking stick. Climbing upstairs, the smoke got even thicker. He heard cries in one of the rooms. He entered it and closed the door behind him. There were three kids in this room. He went to the window and looked out. The window opened onto the roof of the attached garage. He broke out the window and helped the kids onto the roof. He shouted, “Ed, over here!”Ed came around the corner and looked. An IED they said. In a land thousands of miles from their small Texas hometown. A place she knew little about. Somewhere she would never see. It all seemed so unfair. So senseless. All she had left of him now was a gravestone that she visited almost daily and the flag folded neatly, sealed in a plastic bag. Occasionally, she would receive an email from his sergeant or one of his friends. Men who had shared his live and passion for defending this country. She would laugh or cry, sometimes both,. Not surprisingly, the driver had decided to leave the interstate as soon as possible. He was turning off the bottom of the ramp and headed south. I slammed the brakes and cut the wheel, just making the exit ramp as the van disappeared from sight. I managed to stop at the bottom of the ramp and make the left turn. I now had the van in sight, so I followed at a distance.As long as he was driving, he could not harm Amy, I reasoned. I pulled out my cell phone, turned it on and dialed 911. I.