I leaned back in the seat and gave up. There was no way he was going to go against Ash just because I asked him to. Billy and Joe raced all the way. We got home in twenty minutes, a third of the time it usually took us. They ushered us into the house locking the steel doors behind us. They rushed around the house closing all the doors and windows and setting up the alarm system that I never knew we had.
We went into the AA room and sat on the big leather couch. Ann disappeared for a minute before she came back with all our guns. She checked and loaded them then placed them on the table. She took a bottle of whisky off the wall and poured Maria and herself a glass. Maria disappeared and came back with a tray of sandwiches and a glass of milk for me. I just sat there imagining all the thing
