"I surrender," DaBigBoom said. "I give in. You've beaten me." Even his dick had decided it'd had enough."I thought I had," Fifi said, "And yet you're ...till here on the game board. Most intriguing."She grabbed his ankles and pulled his body off the rocky path and onto the softer dirt or ash making up the verge. DaBigBoom noticed he was now lying at the intersection of four board squares with Fifi lying on her elbow next to him."What about the game rules?" he asked. "Shouldn't we be staying. “Lie back down,” Villanelle insists. She clasps a hand around Eve’s wrists firmly, pushing her arms over her head and looping her belt around Eve’s hands. She pulls tightly, sending an anticipatory shiver down Eve’s spine.Villanelle can’t decide what she wants to do first and simply stares in prideful awe at the beautiful woman tied up and spread out before her. Her eyes shift to the small jar of honey still sitting atop the table.Eve wants Villanelle so badly, she can barely think. But. I think George had the same problem. He was coughing as much as I was by the time we finished the half-hour ride."Ya'll must be coming down with what Bob had," Grandma said at one point. "I'll fix you right up with hot tea and honey when we get to Prudie's."We both knew there was no use in arguing with her. If she wanted you to have hot tea and honey, by gum you had hot tea and honey.Aunt Prudie then insisted on taking our temperatures; and she and Grandma got into an argument over the. You are a grown woman, regardless of how you feel about it.”“I don’t understand you,” she said, staring at him. “All those things you told me about ... what you do. They just don’t make any sense.”“They don’t have anything to do with you,” said Bobby, “except that you’d have found out sooner or later, and I didn’t want you to be blind-sided, like you were with your husband.”“You don’t seem like that kind of person,” she insisted.“I’m just me,” said Bobby.“Why did you say that it doesn’t have.