Guns Will Keep Us Together (27 page)

Monty and Jack were sitting on the couch playing video games as I came in. Neither of them looked away from the screen, but both shouted, "Hi, Mom."

The fact that they looked like two kids from opposite sides of the gene pool always got people's attention. Monty resembled his father, Rudy, in looks and disposition. He was more cautious, more intellectual and at times could be more serious than his brother. Jackson's red hair was a recessive Bombay trait that skipped every generation. His shorter, athletic build came from my dad. His wicked sense of humor and penchant for getting into trouble came from me.

And I loved them like no other mother could. For seventeen years, they'd been my whole life. It would be really tough to give them up for college in the near future. Then I'd be alone. Huh. I never thought about that before. I hastily pushed that thought from my mind.

It occurred to me that I'd have to leave the boys here for a month while I was on the show. That was an unpleasant idea. The boys had just turned seventeen and were hell on wheels. If we had wheels in the jungle, that is. There was no way I could leave them.

I toyed with making Mom watch them, sending them to live with their father's parents in the States, a brief stint in military school or possibly just rendering them unconscious for a month. I could do that, but there were some side effects involved, and I didn't want them to have excessive facial hair or golf ball-sized warts.

I pulled a beer from the fridge and sat down next to them on the couch. Figuring out what to do with two adolescent, hormonal, teen-assassins would be worse than doing the damn show. Either way, I was pretty sure that the one person who wouldn't survive in both cases was me.

 

 

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