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"Just tell hi ridiculous," Lisa said "Please, please, please, everyone Put the guns down"

Jackson ignored the request "Who else is in there?" he asked

"No one--I swear," Lisa said

"Tell you what," Jackson said "Blake, hand over the weapon Then both of you step ahead of me, and we’ll walk on over to the Newton house and have a little chat I like the idea of everyone telling the truth, Miss Dru"

Conroy started to slide his Smith & Wesson into his shoulder holster

"No, no Hand it over," Jackson said

"I have a permit," Blake told hiun to the ground at Jackson’s feet Jackson reached down to retrieve it, never taking his eyes off hi up

"Will is at the front," she assured him

"Go!" Jackson ordered

The two of them went ahead of him to the house Will already had the door open He backed away so that the couple could enter in front of Jackson

Angela was down the stairs by then, and she still had her pistol aiela carries a Smith & Wesson SD9 pistol, and so you know that she has a sixteen-plus-one capacity She un that ," Blake said irritably "I’m a Christian, and I’ve told you that"

"So what the hell is going on?" Jackson deain seemed to explode with a combination of nervousness and fear

"For God’s sake, it’s nothing underhanded It’s just…oh, Lord! We’re having an affair, you idiots It’s nothingit secret because…"

"You’re a born-again Christian? Isn’t that…just wrong? Premarital sex?" Jackson asked Blake

Blake looked away "You don’t understand We love each other"

"I see The rules apply when they work?"

"She had been sleeping with the boss," Blake said "Before she learned the truth and goodness in life"

"From you, of course?"

"It’s not adultery when she’s with me," Blake said quietly

Lisa looked at Jackson and didn’t seem quite as nervous "Yes, and you knew I’d slept with David I could see that you knehen you were in the office But it ended It ended when Regina died, but, still…"

"We couldn’t tell him," Blake said "We couldn’t tell hiela hadn’t put the gun down yet

"So--so you two meet each other in a house next to this one?" she demanded

"Why not?" Lisa asked wearily "It’s where I used to ht He said that we could be in the house on business if ere ever seen--the house is up for sale And he could keep an eye on Regina fro, I know it! But he needed someone He needed someone desperately, because she didn’t care anymore All she had cared about was that kid David told me that she was shattered He said that he couldn’t stay married to her, but that he couldn’t leave her when she was so badly hurting He couldn’t stand the pain, but he couldn’t leave her alone He could never really be with her again But then, she died, and suddenly…"

"Suddenly?" Jackson asked

Lisa shook her head "I didn’t know him anymore He said that he’d never come back in this house He asked me to wait, and I didn’t tell him that I couldn’t"