Today, Liv hoped these gauges would save her life. The factory installed temperature gauge wouldn't work without water in the cooling system. The digi...tal gauges were her only chance of keeping the engine working long enough to make it back to Eagles Landing. If the engine got too hot it would seize as metal expanded against metal, locking together under extreme heat, killing the motor.The situation wasn't completely hopeless. The road to town was mostly downhill. Liv could turn the car off. I never heard the play.’ ‘Why don’t you listen in practice?’ ‘You’re nuts, Jacko,’ I said. ‘It’s not in the play book.’ ‘It’s in mine.’ ‘O.K.,’ I said’. ‘What is it?’ Jacko looked at the guard. ‘Wing back, crack back. Strong end, on, outside. On-tackle, pull, lead. On-guard, pull, hook tackle. Koch, on near gap, downfield. Off-guard, inside, on, outside linebacker. Off-tackle, release. Split-end, down-field. Norton, take exaggerated open step, keep angle away from the line — look for the ball. Kat cocked her head, a puzzled expression on her face. "No oversight? How can the government be sure you are not crooked? That you haven't gone off the rails and start working against the Union? Even the Secretary General is subject to recall at the whim of the Parliament."Whim was not really accurate; it would take a seventy-five percent vote of the entire Parliament to recall a Secretary General. The last time a vote had reached that threshold was almost 300 years ago when a crisis had forced. Lucinda hurried after her, shooting the man an apologetic look. But Roche hadn’t excused her and he didn’t intend to. Fiery eyes narrowed, and completely missed Lucinda’s apologetic glance. Instead, he watched hungrily as his target tottered away on her ridiculous heels, swearing that he would make her pay. Nobody was that rude to Roche and got away with it, not even women as distinguished as Harriet. He hardly noticed the attentions of a coyly smiling woman, hanging from her husband’s arm,.
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