QUOTE : But as the sun started to rise over the hills, they were off, on the wide-open road, heading for his home. The one he somehow needed to take this tight-assed woman to, along with her scrap of a mangy cat, the one with half an ear missing.  Because if he hadn’t wrangled her into coming, somehow, this time, in a very weird, unexpected way… …it wouldn’t have felt as much like his home. At all.