"K-rap on this!" she cried.She ran out of Béla's Ruins (That's what she'd named her new home, since Béla had once lived there and that's where she f...und Béla's Praetor) and toward the river – the stream beneath the Washington Street Bridge, roughly a mile away. She could wash the ants off there and get a fresh coating of mud to sooth her skin from their bites and protect her from the harsh sunlight.In less than fifteen minutes, she was sliding down the dried bank of the river. By now, most of. "I had figured this was coming, and I tried to steer it in another direction."Bonnie," I said somberly "I really don't feel good about that. I would really prefer to just pay cash." Listen, Dearie, " she said in a suddenly intimidating tone "Who do you think has been floating the cash to Jerry when you've been, late? You'll do this my way, and you will do it right or you will be out on your ass in less than a week. Do you understand?"There was no sense in trying to persuade her otherwise, so I. Okay." Well, you don't seem it and you sure didn't sound it. Was that Julia you were talking to? Your girlfriend?"One nice thing about my sister, there are many more, she's really a nice person, it's that she's a good listener."My ex-girlfriend. What a bitch. I went over there and there she was up in her room and Tom Forner, well, you don't know him, probably, big, hot football player is fucking her like there's no tomorrow. And she's yelling out all this stuff, I could tell it wasn't the first. ..let's see if we can get this cleaned out and working again, shall we?"In silk nightie and nothing else, she climbed the fence again and almost mechanically snapped the cover back in place before picking the vacuum up and following Bob into the house.Over the next five hours, she scrubbed, dusted, vacuumed, and tidied harder than she had ever done before in her own house. Bob had watched her go about the renovation in the short nightie, and she could tell he had enjoyed the show.She even made.