“Put this on.” She couldn’t see a thing. These were blackout shades, intended for people to sleep in. She was completely blind. He stood her at ...he foot of the bed and said, “Spread your legs wide.” She could feel him snap a pair of plastic cuffs onto her ankle, then heard as he attached it to the bed frame. “What’s all this?” she wondered. “I’m not going anywhere.” She was nervous as she felt him attach her other ankle to the bed. Then he made her bend over at the waist and rest her upper body. We'll begin stripping the forms as soon after pouring as we can."They rounded a stack of ready-made forms that would be set up for use on straight walls and structures. Werner turned to Rummy, "You were smart to let us rent standard forms. We can get them in and out in a hurry, and that saves money. These are going in later today." That's Helen's idea, Werner. She knows this stuff as well as either of us."They moved on toward the building, when a cry arose. They stopped and watched as a crane,. You said then that by ending up with me you’d only be ‘settling’ for the safe bet.”“I did say that.” Dawn’s shoulders slumped. “But you were in a different place back then: Adrienne had just flown off to Hawaii, you rather insultingly asked both Dayna and DJ to take her spot, and my 2% was firmly joined to the 49% that was terrified of starting a rebound relationship with you. If we’d gotten back together then and there, especially as emotionally wrecked as you were, we might’ve already been in. Since it was still several hours until sunrise, there were no lights or bullhorns or anything like that. Joel Carson was broken in so many ways it took the paramedics half an hour to get him into a body bag. “Dead in a ditch,” Sergeant Roy Cooper told me, “just like a Carson.”I shook my head. “Why my house?” I asked, even though I knew.“Probably just crawled as far as he could. They found his brother Stevie in the woods. He was in pretty much the same shape as Joel, but he was hanging on a tree.