His shock must have shown as she waved a hand at him. "Starting from the when we woke up in the hotel in Albuquerque," she amended.
"Ah," he replied and nodded.
He stuck with the soup, salad, and breadsticks as that was filling enough, and he wasn't terribly hungry. Sam went with the lasagna.
"I wonder if we're going to meet more of Frank's associates at this restaurant," Hal mused, looking around at the other guests.
When he looked back at Sam, his face dropped as her expression showed genuine worry.
"Hey! I wasn't serious! I'm sorry! There isn't anything to worry about. I can deal with anything a thug like Frank that brings to bear. Unless... he has a trained killer bear. Then we're in trouble."
Sam snorted as his bad joke struck a funny bone anyway. Then her expression turned seri
