SO---hours pass slowly now as we go trough the various rounds, to finally get to the championship round, for the Silver Gloves. Word had spread of Joe... dropping his drawers at weigh in, so nearly double the number of people were showing up for the Bantam bought. As expected, it came down to Joey, and Johnny Truelove. Whispers were already circulating calling Joey 'cock of the walk' I could'nt help but be proud as fuck—he was already famous, and hadn't even fought yet.Anyways---on with the. ”“Ohhh!” Grace said as the lightbulb went off in her head. She felt instantly stupid. “I thought you meant…I mean…I wasn’t sure how rich married people live, that’s all,” she said, stumbling over her words.“Grace, if it would make it easier, we can sell the house and buy a new one. All I want is for you to be happy.”“I am happy; I promise I am. I mean, hell, I’m not homeless anymore.”Mac’s heart hurt a little. “And you’ll never be homeless again. Even if you decide you’ve made a terrible. Jackie Pilgrim glowed like a diamond in the rock…dapper, confident and wise, with a stubbly little white beard and moustache, he would join the throng, tossing children around like chaff, blowing raspberries, squeezing cheeks and feigning horror at our resistance, he would scuffle us into the garden…his modest Shangri-La, teasing us in his broad Suffolk twang. Jackie was a hospital porter by profession and a ducker and diver by inclination…astonishingly, he owned this little house, apparently. ”“It wasn’t our call,” Dervish muttered. He shook his head. “It was a goddamn clusterfuck. The AI – Hermes – kept close watch on him – vitals and so on – and said he’d recovered. It’s why they gave him an extra two months down there – there were some who wanted to extract him from the fucking hospital.”“They should have given him more time!” Octavia exclaimed angrily.“They didn’t want to risk it,” Dervish snarled. He took another deep breath and blew it out, getting ahold of himself. “I’m not.