Traffic annoyed him but the morning radio show kept him entertained. He had learned years ago the he could jumpstart his day by checking his messages ...during his drive. He clicked on his hands free phone, and hit the speed dial button already programmed to start playing his messages. The first two were nothing important, then Sue's voice came over the phone. "Hello lover, I hope you had a good morning so far. I'm in my car, in the parking lot. No one is around. I'm imaging you in shower right. The whole thing is beyond anything I can apply logic too. Oh, Di talks about our planned trip on Ship, the races we’ll meet and how the more wives I have, the more prestige I’ll have. But she – well none of them – will listen to reason. I...”“Colonel – uh, Jeff,” she blurted, “how do you make love to all those women? You have so many that it seems you would have to be in bed twenty-four hours a day ... And, your wives are all superbly beautiful. They are so beautiful that it’s sometimes hard to. The show was to be live at 10. We arrived an hour early as instructed. They said it was to meet the panel, make up and sound test. I always wore a business suit as did all my mates. In the gym it was shorts, and at home it was over-grown tee shirts with nothing underneath.I felt sorry for the poor makeup girl. She nearly had a heart attack when I took off my jacket. I never go anywhere without my Glock. The look on her face when she saw my holster tucked under my arm with the gun was priceless.. 'But what had frightened it?' she couldn't help but wonder.Still frozen, she waited. After another moment, more noises came from her left; more branch breaking, and... voices!Instinctively, she knelt down to conceal herself in the grass around her. Two men eventually appeared, both making more noise that even she – as 'country-fied' as she wasn't – would make traveling through the woods."It went that way," one of the distant voices said. "Here. You can see the hoof prints." Straight toward Luke.