Grace turned the globe over. "Made in China. Well that explains it, Iguess."She gave it a shake and watched the snow falling over the half-naked hulag...rl. "I'm thinking these have to be sold as a set. What do you think?" Meaning, of course, that they aren't likely ever to be sold at all,"Marcia said. "Who's going to buy fifty snowglobes?" Well, money isn't everything. It might be everything everywhere else,but not here at the Blue Cat."It was true. Grace hadn't opened the Blue Cat to make. ‘Come on, Lori-baby,’ the big man reached over and laid his hand on hers. ‘You and me, we could go out do some drinkin’ and dancin’, have us a real nice time. Wadda ya say?’ Lori could smell alcohol on the man’s breath. She’d dealt with enough drunks for one night, for one lifetime, actually. ‘No,’ she said. She tried to tug her hand from the man’s grasp. ‘I don’t feel like dancing tonight.’ ‘Hey,’ the man’s voice got louder and his grip tightened, ‘You think you’re too good to go out with me,. .. you know," he finally finished."Jerked you off?" she asked...He laughed that barking, hysterical laugh again."That wasn't what I was thinking about. And now that I do, it doesn't seem so bad ... compared to the..." Blow job?" she finished for him."Where did you come from?" he asked in awe. "Where did my baby girl go?" I guess I grew up," she said. "Kind of. I don't feel grown up. But Mom says I did grown up things." We pretty much have to agree about that," he sighed."Do you really think. Her phone buzzed in her purse, and she slipped her arm out of Brian’s to retrieve it. It was a call from Gary, of course. Feeling evil, she answered it.“Are you serious right now?” he asked as soon as she brought the phone to her ear.“Deadly serious, asshole. I haven’t decided which one I’m going to fuck yet. Maybe I’ll just fuck them all. Guess you lose to them again. Bye.”Her brain caught up with her mouth as soon as she disconnected the call, and her face burned. Did I just say that?“If.