And his nasty friends keep coming over and they won't leave. And there's no food left in the house, so I was going to call and ask you if you could po...sibly send next month's alimony payment earlier." "Fuck No!" I snapped. "I could but why would I want to do it? You already got a lump sum payment for half the balance of my savings account. I sent it to you before we even went to court since the terms had already been agreed on. There's simply no way you went through $65,000 in 10 days. It's. She turned, seeing him rushing at her, almost on the top step. She tried to slam the door on him but he hit it hard with his shoulder. It jerked out of her hand and smashed against her, driving her across the rough grass, clods of wet soil tripping her. She fell with a bone jolting thud, her head snapping against a rock. Another larger one was under her, jamming into her back and bruising her kidneys. Her head jerked again, leaving a wet smear of blood against the rock. She struggled against. Nicole was suitably impressed. Mary added to the excitement when she asked Nicole to be the ‘matron of honor’, which of course she accepted. It was about 11:00 by the time they got done talking and they heard a car drive up in the driveway, it sounded familiar, yes it was that for sure, Michael had returned. Mary wanted to run to the door and greet him but Nicole held her at bay saying “He’ll get here, he came this far, he can either knock or come in by himself, don’t be so damned. It deposited them near a village crossroads before rumbling away towards the front in a cloud of white dust.Fields of corn waved peacefully in the fields as they wandered out of the little village. Peasant farmers herded their stock with Birch sticks in the same way they'd done for centuries. Old women hobbled past wearing mourning black, their loose shawls covering their faces.The bulk of Spain's agricultural workers were still illiterate. They'd had the vote since Primo de Rivera was deposed.