.."Lynda paused as realization hit. "It wasn't bad ... and he fell in love with you but you couldn't marry him? Why not?"Charles jumped in, growling l...oudly at Diana. And as he ranted at her, she melted under his heated gaze and from the forcefulness of his passionate, angry voice."Because he felt too fucking possessive of her! His jealousy over the thought of her with another man made him want to do crazy things, like kill any other man who'd ever dare to touch her! It puts images in his head. Dillon had shown up Monday to help coach Lenore, and the Chief talked to him privately for a long time after setting Lenore to studying ratings. When the two came back out of the cabin, both she and Dillon had been told they could address Kostowe as 'Boats', as Lenore herself could expect to be addressed.The Chief was beside himself with giddiness at the whole thing, Lenore saw, and it warmed her heart to the core. Even Dillon reacted to it, sharing grins with Lenore behind the Chief's back.. .” the man says sarcastically. “Go on,” he says a moment later when the woman looks at him with a puzzled look on his face.“They have some kind of weapon with them,” she says.Sternigan looks at her, noting the serious tone she just used. “Something we haven’t seen before?” he asks.But before words can even leave her lips, the building shudders. The floor shakes, threatening to force them both to their knees. The sound of gunfire erupts a second later.“They’re past our first line of defense,”. It was a sprawling thing, that market where much of the city’s retail business took place although some more modern stores were appearing in the suburbs. This was a lot more interesting and he loved the local flavor. He could speak enough Punjabi to do some basic bartering. Finding the things that he needed quickly, he decided to walk to the other end of the area which was different. These were not the regular merchants he usually patronized. They were folks that came in from the country or.