The first time we rode down alone, we met a group of girls on horseback – and we were hooked for life.“Rusty?”I was so deep in thought about Ran...all and me back then, that I didn’t realize it had been so long since Amanda and I had spoken.“I have to apologize, Amanda. I was thinking of the first time my brother, Randall and I rode our horses down this trail alone. This was the only way we could meet girls and after meeting a group of girls on horseback at the bottom of the mountain, he and I. It made her push through and keep going when others might have asked for a mulligan. He really admired that about her.It was one of the characteristics which had led him to court Julia. Like Kieu-Linh, his dead wife's personality was one of resolve, intelligence, a quick wit and quicker mind. All of her strengths were bound by a stubbornness bordering on defensiveness, at times. But she was right about her stances far more often than she was wrong, and it caught the attention of her superiors. ’ I was playing my last card here and if he didn’t get her or she refused to back me up I don’t know where I will end up, probably in some jungle camp while they tap the paper for a ransom which was more profitable to them than a firing squad, at least I hoped so. I guess that I should explain just how I found myself in this situation. It all began some eighteen months ago in Italy, Milan to be specific. Carmen Mendez was at the time of that interview Carmen Chavez, the daughter of El. . "To the table girl, with no sound"She pads on silent feet to the table, waiting at it's centre knowing He is behind her, watching the body that is now His property He approaches and commands her to turn, to raise her eyes to look at Him she spins silently on her heels and raises her wide eyes to Him, travelling from His booted feet, up His denim clad legs, to His black vest then finally, reaches His face to look at His strong, commanding features into His eyes and at once she is lost to the.