While I had been doing the grunt work with my dirty hands, Tommy had picked up a gas stove top and oven. Both were well used, but that wasn’t a prob...em. Tommy and Gerome moved them into the smaller store room of the gym. They in effect converted it to the beginnings of a kitchen. Tommy also had several kitchen cabinet units from two different houses. He helped Gerome install those.“It took a day to teach Gerome how to light the damn pilot lights. That boy is the least mechanical male human. ” Rachel reached up and stroked the scar on my right cheek, left by the cellphone. “Yeah. I had multiple fractures, a concussion, cuts—like my face—and was in a coma for three days. No one ever expected me to come out of it. My family was sitting around my bed waiting for the heart monitor to flatline.”“Jesus, Jacob!” Beca cried. She grabbed my left arm in a death grip and started to cry.“Right after you texted me your bid. I might have been the last one who talked to you in this life,” Desi. As Bruce spoke, I could look over to see Paul on the couch becoming more and more impatient. Finally, Paul gave me a sad smile and quietly left.I had been saved by Bruce’s call from committing an irreparable breach of my marriage. But, did I want to be saved? Paul’s touch still burned on me. He had made me feel a passion no man had ever stirred in me before.The DA’s conference room had a sad last century appearance as if it hadn’t changed a bit in the last twenty years, as in all probability it. Lucky fly, he thought, sometimes I wish I could have the life of a fly.A wave of dizziness washed over him, and he realized he could no longer block the light from entering his eyes. He bumped into the wall, spinning around and flew across the room to bump into the closed window. Wait a minute - flew?He spun around again, and realized he could see himself still sitting on the bed, his hands still covering his eyes. Matt turned toward his dresser, moving closer to the mirror on top, and could.