I could see Daryl’s future as soon as Jasmine held our daughter. Xxx Once I had identified three storerooms that we could clear due to computerizing our records the City Council approved spending seventy-five thousand dollars of our recovered funds from the big drug bust for bars, sliding barred doors, and barred polycarbonate windows for each of the rooms. The only problem was that there were a number of voices and they couldn’t identify any of them. I’m not much for praying, but—I swear to God—I prayed for Lucy and our daughter for hours. “I told Lucy that I wanted a dozen, at least.” Marylou laughed as Lucy elbowed me in the ribs. “Everything about these trucks is huge; each one weighs more than 500,000 pounds and with their beds tilted back any attempt to ram them would just result in sliding up the ramps they made.”
Next I described the actual raid,
