" And look how that turned out. Monty, you need a new campaign manager." Are you volunteering?" Nope. There's this political consultant named Jed. Spe...t decades in D.C., but recently moved to Oakland. Don't ask how I've heard of him. He has a record of running unknown faces--" In strategic races. I'm familiar." Did he run your--" He should have. Jed called me after I conceded, offering condolences and the same advice you have accosted me with tonight." Great minds." Only difference is, I hired. He had done that, and that work was what had delayed us from leaving the fort sooner. It took much less time to get the horses ready so we were waiting impatiently for Janos’ men to finish their preliminary work and be ready to go. A separate crew was to deliver the arrows to the wall, and they would be on that duty as long as the scorpions were in use there.It only took about five minutes to complete the assembly of the scorpions once they had reached the shooting platform, so they were ready. “Absolutely ... I bet that girl is all kinds of yummy, isn’t she? I’ve always wanted to bone a direct descendant of the Pilgrims. You’ll assist me, of course! Of course, of course, as Cenk Uygur would say! Oh, you’ll help me enlist him in my cause, too. He’s a smug, sanctimonious bastard, but he is also quite persuasive. I intend to put him in Congress and have him do my bidding there. Maybe Ireland can help out with that, too!” I chuckled as I kept pounding the holy hell out of Kim Basinger,. By the time they returned Rebecca was wearing Clay's ring. Several weeks later they were married in the parlor of the Westerman farm house with so many friends and family around half of them were standing while the minister read the wedding vows from his thin black book.Clay and Rebecca spent two nights in the nearest large town that had a decent hotel but they rarely left their room. They returned to the rent house that Clay had changed from a dusty rough looking house to a home that might.