Suspicions are raised and an important decision.

Your men carry the wounded assassin up to the main house. The doctor is set up in one of the upstairs rooms. He sets to work patching up Soo-yin. Two of your goons stay with him, ready to gun her down if she tries anything despite the fact that she is sedated.

You sit in the dining room with Louis and the old couple. They provide cookies and tea while you wait.

"It's not a good idea keeping her this long boss. We should just off her and feed her to the pigs." Louis gripes.

"I know, I know. I've got it under control. I need her alive right now." You say. You sip your tea.

Louis is giving you a strange look. "This kind of reminds me of that trip to Chicago, remember?"

You weren't going to take the bait. The plain fact he was asking that question meant trouble. "Louis, you're getting on my nerves. Why don't you go for a walk or something?"

"You got it boss." He gets up and leaves. Another problem to deal with.

The doctor comes down scrubbing his hands. "All patched up. It wasn't as bad as it looked. She's sedated right now but should be up within the hour."

"Thanks doc." You say.

"Hey, no problem boss." He smiles. "It's a nice change of pace from how we usually do things. If you guys are done shooting things up out here I'm heading home."

"Yeah, go ahead." You nod to him.

The old couple smile and drink their tea. God you wanted to be alone right now. You head up the stairs into the side bedroom. Two of your men stood over the Korean's **** form standing guard. "Wait outside." You order.

"Boss?"

"Yeah, go ahead. I don't thinks she's going anywhere. Keep people by the doors and around the house just in case. I can take care of myself." You pat his shoulder.

"You got it, just yell if ya need me."

You nod and they leave. Taking up a chair by the window you look across at the deadly assassin. She lay with a thick blanket up to her waist, her hands folded on top of it. She is topless with tight clean bandages across her midsection and on one arm. Other wounds stitched up. She had a well toned body, that of a gymnast. She had very small breasts, just two tiny mounds over her pectoral muscles. Small deep brown nipples sitting perfectly center. She was covered in various scars and other signs of old injuries. One finger was bent slightly off angle, her nose had tilted slightly to one side, a burn scar on her shoulder. This woman had seen some shit in her time. Looking at the placid face you marvel at how normal she looks. Good looking sure, but what you meant was that you could pass her on the street and never have a clue she was anything but a regular person. Her breathing is slow, deep, and steady.

You lean back and stare out the window watching the cows mill about in a distant field. You enjoy the silence, just the light sound of Soo-yin's even breathing in the room. The past day had been a dream and a nightmare, but you had to admit that it had been exhilarating. You think back to your real life. Broke, bored, everything falling apart, never getting ahead. As you stare out the window you watch as a the shadow of a cloud makes its way across the valley. You think about Natali, the mansion, saving this woman's life. This all felt so...right. In this moment you make up your mind that regardless of what happened now you were going to try to make this life work. Things were going to change but Vincent Calabrese was going to live!

You sit and think a long time. Louis was going to be a problem, but you figured you had some time to deal with that. Right now this woman was your more immediate concern.