Now if you don't want it, or are you going to be choosy, they'll jump for the blonde!"No, I couldn't bear to lose it, Betty thought immediately. There...s no harm in it... I probably won't see Harvey again for a long time, and it is just what I want... a chance to break into modeling."Okay, Harvey, I'll be there..." Betty said breathlessly."Good girl," Harvey said, and gave her an address in one of the best sections of town. "All right, I'll see you at noon," he said as he hung up.For a moment,. Her eyes darted toward the far corner, past her still-unmoving Granddad; she saw the end of the beast's sole restraining cord quiver with tension. The beast let loose a furious roar, a thunderous shrieking tidal wave of noise crashing down around her; its upper body lunged forward, its sweeping claw of death coming a little closer this time. Em heard a faint shouting; Alex was saying something about binding -- but she didn't know how to do that! She glanced back to the bloody end of the cord. Rick stares at me bleary-eyed and silent. Even half-asleep and hungover, Rick is the epitome of masculine power. Dark hair, blue eyes, 250 lbs of solid muscle packed onto a 6'4" frame. It's a real shame that the poor guy is dumb as a rock. That's actually why he's still here, living with Mom and Dad. He's two years older than me and was the town's great football superstar. Everybody swore he was going to be the next Drew Brees (I have no idea who that is... famous athlete or something) but. I did spend some time canvassing some of the local saloons looking for leads on other wanted men. One particularly nasty individual spent a lot of time in Mexico. He was in the business of supplying fresh whores to the rougher whore houses on the Mexican side of the river. He had a steady demand, since the women didn't last long on the job. Either they were killed by a customer or they died of any one of a multitude of diseases, not all of them sexually transmitted—cholera was the most common.I.