It was just past noon when the two cowboys rode up to the ranch. They unsaddled their horses and set them out into the corral. As Earl stretched out o...to his bunk, Lucky grabbed a tin cup and poured himself a cup of coffee from the large pot that sat on the stove. Lucky walked to the window and looked outside. ‘Wonder where everyone is?’ Earl was half asleep already. ‘Sleeping it off somewhere I would expect.’ Lucky nodded. ‘Yeah, I expect you’re right.’ Earl’s first snore caused Lucky to turn.. “You are growing weaker everyday.”“Then let my blood run dry and rot away.”“I am no longer a little girl, I kill just like you do.” Life's eyes gave a flicker of pain as he sighed and forced himself to look her in the eye.“What do you want me to do go a massacre to quench a thirst that I have held for almost 40 years?” “Yes.”“Then you are selfish and I though I would have thought you better.”“But instead you made a killer.”“Touché.” Life said as he looked away and gave a sigh.the food arrived. I heard the ‘clinking’ sound of metal as Ashley turned back towards me proudly displaying a pair of handcuffs that shimmered in the lamplight as they hung from her finger, swinging back and forth. She smiled and once again her expression was not one of playfulness or joy, but rather one of mischief. It was a look more fitting of a movie villainess than one that would cross the face of my cute little girlfriend. My heart raced as she leaned over and placed the cuffs around my wrists, tightening. I bet if anything, all of those sunk costs are just fish food to what Wheels needs funding for now!”“It’s worse than you could guess. Here and now, I barely control 25% of the stock and any well-organized take-over attempt could succeed. As a result, in order to protect the family interests, we’re going to need to do some rather fancy company reshuffling, starting now. First, to spin off the really essential pieces of remaining R&D to direct island control, disguised as corporate restructuring.