I tried to follow but my body was wrecked with pain and I was exhausted. I just lay where I was and fell asleep. When I woke, the terror of the night ...efore returned to my mind. I decided to get out of this torture chamber before Gary returned. I crawled to the bedroom. There was no one there. I hadn't the energy to go any further. I climbed onto the bed and collapsed. I don't know how long I lay there before I was dragged from the bed by the hair. I screamed as I fell to the floor and was. We’ll pop in there.” Kitty pulled out the company credit card we’d been using for expenses. “I consider it part of the severance package.”“We can’t do that,” Madison told her.“What are they going to do, fire us?” she asked.We lugged our inventory down to the Elsevier booth and took a quiet cab ride to the liquor store Kitty had seen. Madison and Kitty each picked a wine, based on the recommendations of a helpful clerk: an Araujo Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Altrgracia 2013 ($146) and a Close Des. "Yeah, I'll close my eyes. It's not as if I haven't seen you naked before," she said and giggled merrily.She proceeded to watch me as I entered the bathroom, and was enjoying watching my modesty, even if it happened to be feigned.I returned from the bathroom, hands over my crotch, and I saw her lying in my bed with the sheets pulled up to her neck. I crawled in bed beside her and found she was au naturel beneath the sheets."Umm, were you hot?" I turned to face her, and rested my hand on her. I know a man back in New York named Saul Silverman, he handles my investments,” Irv said.Ruth laughed and sat the books down on the circulation desk.“It’s a small world, Irv. Saul Silverman is my father. Wait until I tell my mother I had to move to Texas to meet a nice Jewish doctor.”Ruth walked Glickman back to the small conference room next to her office and retrieved a couple of bottles of Doctor Pepper from her office fridge. Irv laughed and toasted her with his bottle.“Don’t tell me you.