Then again, the fifteen minutes he’d spent in there had made him sweat buckets. He detoured to the kitchen to get a snack and heard what sounded lik...e a moan of pain. His head swiveled on his neck and then tilted upward. It was coming from Veronica’s room. He heard another moan and instinct caused his gun to be in his hand without thinking. He stalked quickly to her door and listened. There was another moan.He hadn’t locked the door when he left. Had someone come in and attacked? Where was the. It’s just ... that this means that Jon Snow is the true and rightful heir to the Seven Kingdoms, and here I once dared presume to ask him to bend the knee to me! I asked that, of my own nephew, my King! Then again, I honestly thought myself the true and rightful Queen, whereas this makes a usurper out of me. The arrogance, the temerity of me! The lives that I took for a birthright that wasn’t even mine. The slaves in Meereen who perished because I left them to claim a realm that wasn’t mine. And are ... you OK?”“Yes, I am not hurt, Mary. There were two gunmen in the cafe, and I was able to overpower one and shoot the other. I don’t know who sent them. They were not police, as they did not attempt to caution me,” I said, “If they were secret service agents, then they were poorly trained and I shudder to think what chances we have against the SS Gestapo, should they invade. I can only assume they were aware of who Bert and I were and that they wanted me alive for questioning to see. Lois Smyth detective 1st classJeremy Ed former partnerPatrol Deputy Patty PurcellMichael Everheart bar manager lucky13JD enforcerClive McMasters known money man.Porter John law partner and maybe lover.Chief Deputy Malloy second in commandJen social worker for the county.Sam Delray head of child protective services.Lucinda mercer volunteer.Tommy Simpson another volunteerMary Beth Williams the third volMichael Williams Mary Beth’s very gentle husband also helped.Amos sheriff’s researcher.Gerome.