Despite her demure dress, she turned heads everywhere she went."Jack and I are finally going to try for a baby!" she bubbled to the family as she look...d lovingly at Jack. Oddly, she was feeling more attraction to her husband at that moment than she could remember. "I can't believe the church said we're finally ready!" Finally dude! Gonna get you some!" Evan said as he leaned over and punched his younger brother's shoulder. Jack smiled weakly, embarrassed, while his older brother grabbed him by. Deciding to put off unpacking for a little while longer, he got back in his truck and headed across town to Sammy's Roadhouse again. Might as well plant me here, he thought with a touch of weary humor. He sat on the ripped barstool with a pint of beer in front of him, head resting on his bunched fist and thought back to how it all began.The plan was perfect. The execution would be even better.Ah, now there's a word you can get right out of your mind, execution, George Sanders thought to. "That makes sense." Darren told her, reaching for his wallet. "Perhaps this will make up, in some small measure, for what your previous employer failed to pay you. I'd offer you a ride back to the States, but I don't think your leg would stand up to the g-forces of suborbital flight."He tossed a handful of US hundred dollar bills on the bed. Stella picked them up, stacked them carefully, and handed them back."Thanks," she said, "but I told you this as a means of retaliating against a client who. It seemed a shame to do this, so I offered to see if i could get control of him. Steve said that if I managed this, he would give me a hundred bucks for my trouble. That evening, I walked Ace home with me, and tied him up in the barn; later, I went out to see how he was; he seemed quite happy in his new home, so after filling his water-bowl I decided to turn in for the night. Next morning, I was woken early by his barking, so I went out to see what the trouble was. His water-bowl was empty, so.