Even then, it wasn’t mean. The first time I felt that he was mean was at my dad’s funeral when he said those awful things.”“And it was those a...wful things that led you to encourage me to be with Sandy and Ruth.”“I wanted revenge. It really was that simple. I couldn’t think of a better way to get back at Pastor Kent than to have you fuck his virgin daughter. When she got pregnant, I laughed so hard, and felt he had gotten exactly what he deserved. I felt kind of bad for Sandy, but she’d done it. Behind the Duke and the second man, the mounted men milled about, reforming in two ranks, with the fat man on the caisson in the center of the front rank. McAllister remembered the man clearly from the attempt to kill him in Etarusca, when eleven men died and the fat man escaped.Satisfied, McAllister nodded to the Duke."Attend," the Duke ordered in a cutting voice that pierced the uneven wind of the wintry day, and his horsemen steadied and quieted. "Two champions shall fight this man, each in. She will not help you, nor allow me to, either."Disgusted, Mattos Stefane made a gesture, and the youngest Archprelate present in the center of the Basilica raised a rod affixed with a cube at the end of it. A dark ruby beam shot from it then, and transfixed the man Rizzo. The beam pierced him from behind, between the shoulder blades. As the man's limbs jerked and flopped, the beam emerged from the chest of the dead seer, now a pure silvery-white."Piss and damnation," Mattos Stefane swore, and. Karen looked up at me and smiled and we started kissing. Then I kissed her neck and across her shoulder and a deep breath came from her. “Oh fuck Rick” she said, as I had squeezed her ass too while kissing her. “I have known my son and your wife have been fucking around for while and I wanted to tell you but was afraid it might end in you and Jason being angry at each other and you are like his father, but since you know and are not mad and everything is cool then I can show you how I feel.