I shot him twice with the second shot going in an ear and ruining the back of his head. He fell limply.The woman was looking in shock. She screamed. I... reached over and slapped her hard. She fell and stopped screaming. I looked at her face and realized she was in her early to middle thirties probably. She was dirty and bruised. She had probably been mistreated in many ways for some time.I kicked the rifle away from her reach. "Will you be quiet and talk?"She nodded. "Who are you?" That's not. “Pops, look, I told you I can handle this – it’s just those Green boys again. A good knocking and they’ll back down.”Johnny looked at Ken. “Please forgive my son his lack of manners. One tries, but his Mamma spoiled him way too much.”Ken smiled, the flat, humorless smile of a true predator, although “Vic” didn’t recognize it for what it was. Ken could sense the four nervous bodyguards checked their spacing – they didn’t have the comfort of Vic’s lack of familiarity.“Sir, I think I understand. She pads softly towards the bathroom arriving at the door just as Marcus is exiting. "Oh, hey Quinn, did you need to use the restroom too?" "No," she says with a slight shake of her head. She bites her lip as she looks up into Marcus's eyes. Quinn raises up onto her tip-toes, wrapping her hand behind Marcus' head and pulls his face to hers for a kiss. She parts her lips, allowing his tongue to entwine with hers as she inhales, breathing in his intoxicating scent. They break the kiss, but. “The rule,” said Cynthia, “is this ... men marry hoping their wives never change. Wives marry to change their men.”“I must have missed something when we were children.”And Tyche said, “According to mom and Auntie Cyn ... you missed out on lots when you were growing up.”Then she said, “Yup ... that’s why you were a virgin when you were 22. What’s a virgin?”“You ... and you’re going to stay that way,” JW said, “Until you’re 40.”“What about... ?”“Forty!” said JW, determined to have the last.