Jo leaned over the diner table and blew a tight cone of smoke out the side of her mouth as she did so. Her shirt collar was missing a few buttons at the top from last night's tussle with Angie and I could see the smooth white slopes of her breasts and for a fraction of a second I remembered our brief and doomed romantic past. That night in Minneapolis, for instance. Some people would give their lives to have been a willing participant in that debauched escapade. - you know what I always say, Buster. - yeah yeah I know. - well I'm gonna repeat it for you, just in case there's some gaps in your memory. - alright - I sighed - go ahead. - thank you. In situations such as these it behooves us to recall that there's people out there who will kill us without a second thought. We mean nothing to these people - pause, shrug, lights another smoke - and we don't even know who they are. If we did they wouldn't be doing their job. - yeah, I'm with you, I know where you're going. - I'm not so sure that you do, Buster. You won't ever know until you get there. which brings me back to my earlier point and the purpose of our meeting. - you know that I only love the sight of your... - I'm gonna stop you right there because I don't have all day, Buster, and I gotta get home and wash the sex and cigarettes off my body before I do anything else and I got some important shit to do today, so please just let me finish. - girls gotta have her flourish. - goddamn rights - another tight cone of smoke spat sideways as she crushed the cigarette to lifelessness in the tray in front of me - now as I was saying, Buster, there's never not guns. You go thinking that there ain't a gun in the room and your night is gonna end real early. Get it? - got it. - good. - Jo pulls a wooden box a little smaller than a shoe box out of her bag located under our table and pushes it across to me. I creak open the lid just a tiny bit to see the contents - it's wrapped, you can't see it in here, but it's German, completely scrubbed, untraceable. It's a standard issue, nothing complicated about it but it'll get the job done. - thank you, Jo. - you're welcome, Buster. Now don't do anything stupid.