Chapter 231

When I woke up, it was the next morning and Juanita the pubs only female employee was standing beside me. "Miss Sylvia is there anything I can get for you."

"To be honest I could use some pain killers, and a cup of coffee," I said.

"What kind of pain killers?" she asked.

Get me some Tylenol extra strength and some Aleve,"I said. "Mostly honey, I really want coffee."

"I will bring that and send Jeremy for the drugs," she said.

She was back with the coffee and the Tylenol almost immediately. I took two of them and drank the coffee. I sort of remember Liam and the Brit being around the night before. I also was pretty confused about the whole thing. I waited to see who would show up, since they knew I was in the land of the living again.

"You ready to talk some," Liam said as he walked in.

"It would be nice, if you carefully kissed me," I said. And of course he did.

"Now we found your man. We had to finger print him and run them through the system to get his real name. His name won't mean a thing to you, he is a pro from Atlanta." Liam said.

"I don't know a soul from Atlanta," I said.

"He is just based there. He works for lots of people. His partner checked into the ER as well. He checked in a half hour after the one with the belly wound. Hell Sylvia you hit him as well. Looks like we were all wrong about that .22 mag. You took out the bigger part of his elbow joint. They thought he was going to bleed to death there was so much blood in his car but it wasn't all his."

"Damn shame," I said. "So they are both going to live."

"Hey for a skinny bitch, you put up one hell of a fight. I know guys in Wakefield prison that would like to use a shank that well." Liam said.

"I'll put that in my resume," I said.

"So who would hire a hitman to run you off the road," Liam asked.

"I would think, they all wanted to do it themselves," I replied.

"Who," he asked quite seriously.

"Well I had a deputy stop me before the election and tell me I might want to move if I lost. Something about orders to harass me, but this doesn't sound like the Sheriff." I said. "Save him till all else fails."

"Okay, give me another name," Liam said.

"Hon it would just be a guess. We need to ask the men who came down that hill after this skinny bitch," I said.

"Okay, I'll go ask them," Liam said way too quietly.

"Liam you can't torture them in a hospital, if that is what you are thinking." I suggested.

"That is true, I am just going to ask them some questions. You know like how did you get gutted like a fish. Just to see what he says." Liam replied as he stood to leave.

"Liam please be careful. If anything happens to you I would never get over it," I said.

"Likewise I'm sure," he said.

I fell back asleep and woke up at noon. I took two of the Aleve pills before I fell back asleep. I managed to sleep till 2PM. I ate a bowl of soup Juanita brought from home for me. It was good soup, but I fell asleep before I finished it. I had no idea what was going on with my body, but it was doing whatever it wanted.

When I awoke that evening, I saw Liam sitting in the one upholstered chair in the room. He was just staring at me. "Hey there you," I said.

"Hey there yourself," he said.

"What you been up to today," I asked.

"Talking to your two friends in the hospital. They won't give up the name of who hired them." he admitted.

"Well then we will have to think of something else." I said.

"No getting the name from them is the best we can do. We are just going to have to be more persuasive," Liam said.

"They are not being protected by anyone, so we can get to them anytime." Liam said.

"Liam what day is this?" I asked.

"It's Friday have you lost track of time?" he asked me.

"I got a name you need to try on them. Ask them if either knows a Randal Davis, and watch for a reaction." I suggested.

"Who is Randal Davis," Liam wanted to know. I told him about out conversation. He could have got me to agree to wait, so he could get his man up here. He needs to be sure, I won't water down the vote. Then again so do the democrats. It's hard to say who would benefit more from me getting offed."

"Well let's put it this way, we are sure as hell going to find out. Martin can put his computer geeks on it now. Remember Watergate follow the money," he said.

"I had no idea you knew anything about Watergate," I said.

"I always try to learn about things went to shit," he said. "Just to try to prevent it happening to me."

"Do what you can. I need some food and to see how many of the bandages I can do without." I said.

"Don't worry we will take care of this. We will check out this political angle thing and let you know, when we have something." Liam said.

The wounds were oozing some, but not really bleeding. I cleaned them with Jeremy's help. "I got to tell you, I appreciate your doing this," I said.

"Oh hell I always wanted to be a nurse," he said with a giggle. "Besides I have already seen you naked."

"Well I appreciate it anyway," I said. He also helped me take a bath in a pan of water. It wasn't much of a bath but I still felt better. Moving caused me a great deal of pain, but I managed it anyway. I sat up long enough to eat some real food from the pub's kitchen. I also drank a cup of coffee.