"Honey? You go first," Perry said, handing Bea a rolled-up $100 bill. Then, as she leaned over the coffee table, he held her hair back behind her head..."Thank you darling," she said, and holding the bill to her nose, placed the other end next to one of the lines and loudly snorted it. She chased it with a sip of wine and handed the bill to Annie. "Annie?"Annie took the bill and gathered her hair back and snorted a line just as Bea had. Suddenly, it seemed like the room got brighter to Annie. The. The paperwork pukes at the State offices lived up to their names and the papers were wrong on the first two tries. Seth and his men were trying to get one of the bulls back in its pen when Seth got the third call to sign papers. The three men had fork lift tines set at a sharp upward angle and the tines pushed together. They had managed to get the bulls head between the tines and he couldn't get out because of his horns. BB figured that if similar setups worked for dairy cows, it should work. " She laughed, held up her cup andsaid, 'well, now, if anyone asks what I've done for promotion, I cananswer truthfully. Cheers." Cheers," I said as she walked out the door. I took another sip of mytea and, when no one was watching, threw it away. I hated green tea.------------Jake and Rachel were supposed to meet me in the lobby of the client'sbuilding before we went upstairs. When I got there, Jake was waiting inthe lobby, with a rolling case of files. "Hey, Jess," he said."Good morning,. ‘Harry,’ she said, walking up to him. ‘Please, Harry, trust me.’ ‘Why?’ he asked. She took his hands away from his face and brought them to her lips, kissing them and then placing them on her waist. ‘Because you make me happy. I’m not going to hurt you. I’d never hurt you the way she did.’ Harry looked up. ‘How did you-‘ ‘I didn’t, exactly,’ Trish said, removing the towel from her head, letting her wet hair fall over her bare shoulders. ‘But I sort of could tell something like that happened.’.