Chapter 278

• Hunting trip? No! Fucking trip
• it was already early November when Cassie realized that she still had way too much vacation built up for the year.... even if she used several days during the upcoming holidays, she’d have a really tough time using them all up. She found herself forced to take extra vacation days during the last two months of the year, or lose them completely.... which, she thought to herself, was actually kind of a nice problem to have.
• Her husband, Matt, was in the living room of their Houston home, talking with his two brothers about their annual hunting trip coming up the following week. Every year Matt and his two brothers.... Declan and Ray.... drove out to their property outside of Bandera, Texas... just west of San Antonio... to hunt and enjoy some time away from the big city lights of Houston. They had a small hunting lodge on their leased property.... it had two bedrooms; a shared bathroom; and a decent sized living room with a comfy sofa, two over-stuffed chairs and a flat screen TV. Through a doorway off the living room was a small kitchen and a dining nook, with a dinette table that seated four. Just about perfect for the three of them to enjoy a nice, week-long get-away.