When she did, the flawless diamond, nestled in the setting on her left hand, sparkled. She smiled and moved her hand for a few minutes watching the da...zling array the sun created for her. She looked over at Michael, still sound asleep. She brushed his hair lightly and kissed his forehead. He stirred slightly and began mumbling. Most of it was unintelligible, but she made out the words ‘love you’ and ‘yes … don’t stop.’ Beth chuckled and looked down at his crotch. Sure enough, the ‘covers were. We were friends for as long as I could have it. I wanted to show you everything I knew.Even when you bullied me in your younger years, when you turned your back to me, I loved you. I’d hide in my room and wonder, crying, asking myself why, how could you be so cruel to me? Mom and dad just said it was a boy thing, that you were growing up. It was normal that you wouldn’t hold my hand when we walked anymore, that you didn’t want the other boys to see you with your older sister, that you didn’t. ”“Why don’t you rent one?” she asked.“Why should I rent one when you have one?” Dexter asked.Somewhat embarrassed by her old car, she answered, “My car is small.”“So?”“Just figured ... you’d want something better,” she said.Dexter said, “Small is fine.”“Let me call in the card to the agency,” Amber said.“Go ahead,” Dexter said.Amber made the call. She talked for a few minutes and then hung up. She turned to Dexter and asked, “Are you ready to go to the bank?”“Sure,” Dexter said.Dexter and Amber. Too thin for Carol’s taste – Carol walked in expecting Anna and Chess, maybe some other people she didn’t know.He was 7’1” of man-mountain, snow-white hair down his back, a wild-man’s beard, hands that could palm her whole body like a basketball if he grabbed her waist, muscular thighs bigger around than that same waist.“Papa Bear!” she shrieked, leaping at him like he was a building she was going to climb.Margo“Harry, that is a huge goddamn man,” Margo muttered.“Yeah ... lucky she knows him,.