"I have a job for you."Threaten me! The crazy fucker threatened me! No one threatens me and lives! I'm an assassin's agent for Christ's sake. Wilson h...s got to be out of his mind.David returned to his body, which was slumped unconscious in the passenger seat of Darla's Hummer. Darla had stayed with her mother, and Nora wanted to hang around and spend some time with her father, so only Flint occupied the vehicle with him when David opened his eyes."Shit," David muttered."What?" Flint. I was thrilled to have survived the game errorless at third, and when I talked to Maureen afterward, she reported that Nolan had been thrilled by my early double that had eventually scored our go-ahead run."But he slept through the rest," she said. "We've stopped recording the games at home. It's no use. He's never awake long enough to see a whole game. He's even stopped asking." I'll be home Sunday," I told her. "The Division Series won't start until Tuesday. If we win the East, it'll open in. Zoë liked my fairy pictures the best, and I sometimes wonder if that isn’t the reason that I’ve painted so many since then. Zoë became my model, and secretly my muse. She would sit for me whenever I needed to do a painting for class, or even if I just wanted to practice sketching features. One day when I was preparing to do an assignment she said something that made the hair on my arms stand up. ‘Do you ever do- you know, nudes?’ she asked quite shyly. ‘Sure, in class I’ve done a few,’ I told. ’ ‘How’s that?’ ‘I have to spend every other week in Lansing. I’ll stay in the corporate apartment of course and I’ll be paid more.’ ‘That pretty much sucks, for how long?’ ‘It’s open ended right now, so I don’t know.’ ‘Well if it goes on for months we’re going to have to have a chat honey.’ ‘Let’s wait and see what happens okay?’ Chapter Two Tanya left for Lansing Sunday afternoon and Jay wandered around the house muttering to himself. ‘Crap, it’s almost like being single again.’ Her going.