She thinks you’re behind having the VFW fix up a newer car for her and she told me about Christmas Eve.”“Janine’s a kind person and she needed... a break.”“Yes, and now Three Corners Farm is a sponsor of the group Sage, the group where Janine is one of the lead singers.”“She told you that?”“No, another young woman named Sofía Torres told me. She got a break too.”“Oh.”They were quiet for a while and Kate stared at the photos of Jacob and Jessica in various places around the room as she thought. Tim was finishing tying his shoes when he asked, “Okay, I’ll bite. What was the nickname they gave you?”“They wanted to call me ‘Gran Culo’ or ‘big butt.’ I don’t have as big of a butt anymore. I worked hard to lose that weight!” Gabe grumbled.A young man’s afro peaked around the corner. “Shit, ain’t no thang, Big G, just fuckin’ with ya. You do look sexy, though. When you gonna give a brother a piece of that BIG ASS?”The laughing started all over again, accentuated with some light pushing and. The bolt was embedded in his calf, at least half of its length buried in his flesh; the area around the wound looked sickly, as if he had been poisoned. Gritting his teeth, Jacob grabbed the bolt and yanked it out, trying not scream as the metal came free of his leg. Tossing the bolt aside, he looked around the corner, just in time to see a dagger flying toward him. He ducked backward and grabbed the woman's arm, yanking her into the kitchen and throwing her against a cabinet. She grunted as. The gist of his proposals were thus. During the latter half of the 19th century the Baltic fleet had been basically a coast defence force. Russia had been humiliated during the Crimean War by steamships of the French and British roaming at will along the coast of Russian Finland. Therefore in the ensuing years she'd concentrated on building low-freeboard turret ships along the lines of American Civil War monitors to protect the coast.These ships had never been designed for service beyond the.