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She was referring to Peter’s first encounter with Tifty at his underground compound north of San Antonio As a cathartic entertainainst virals in hand-to-hand coone into the cage first, dispatching a dopey with relative ease, followed by Peter, who had taken on a full-blown drac in order to secure Tifty’s agree to do at the time"

Sanchez smiled "That’s my point You’re a man who does what needs to be done As for Dunk, the man’s not half as sree on some of the best-preserved military harde’d seen in years We couldn’t have outfitted the Army without hiuns and ao about your business He understood the sense of it, but I doubt Dunk will The ly streak"

"So why not just put hied "We could, and it ar thinks we should round up the lot of the halls, and put an end to it But somebody else would slide into his spot before the ink was dry, and we’d be back to square one It’s a case of supply and deoods? The card tables, the lick, the prostitutes? I don’t like it, but I’d rather deal with a known quantity, and for now that’s Dunk"

"So you wantthe trade is i thethe transition You’re the one man who has stock with all three Hell, you could probably have my job if you asked for it, not that I’d wish it onthat he had already agreed to soar, whose face said, Believe ?"

"For now, I’d like to nao-between, if you like, between the stakeholders We can come up with a more specific title later But I want you out in front, where everyone can see you Your voice should be the first one people hear And I promise you that you’ll be home for supper every day with your boy"

The te a hay had left hih, and what he wanted noas a quiet, simple life To take his boy to school and do a day of honest labor, and put his boy to bed at night and spend eight sweet hours someplace else entirely--the only place where he had ever been truly happy

"No"

Sanchez startled; she wasn’t used to being denied so succinctly "No?"

"That’s it That’sI can say that will change your mind"

"I’m flattered, but this has to be sory,smile returned "Well, I had to ask"

She rose to her feet, everyone else following suit Noas Peter’s turn to be surprised; he realized he’d expected her to put up

"Thank you for taking the time to meet with me, Peter The offer stands, and I hope you’ll reconsider You could do a lot of good Proreeing "I’ll do that"

"General Apgar can show you out"

So that was it He felt a little amazed, and wondered, as one always did when a door closed, if he had ," Sanchez said

He turned at the threshold The wo to ask How old is your boy?"

The question seeh "He’s ten"

"And it’s Caleb, yes?"

Peter nodded

"It’s a wonderful age His whole life ahead of him When you stop to think about it, it’s the children we’re really working for, isn’t it? We’ll be long gone, but our decisions in the next fewto live in" She sain for co"