”“I guess you do. Brady. Eva wants to invest her money. You said one time that we should borrow to buy stock of our own for the warehouse and I di...agreed with you. I’ve changed my mind.”“Continue, Berta. If you haven’t got this thought out yet then think out loud and I’ll listen.”“Paddy doesn’t like living in town. He wants to get back to freighting and you’ll be putting on more men. He does want Addie close by where he works. Would you look for a piece of land she can buy?”“I can do that. The. If Summers had come to the tournament, Al would have been in the lower half of the bracket and wouldn’t meet the top competition until the finals. Either way, I was screwed. I had to take this match or I was out. There’s no dropping to a new bracket once you reach the quarters.Don’t get me wrong; I’ve lost matches this year. But Al was the toughest match I’d had since playing Karl at National Singles last year. We played at a different level in that match than any other match of the whole. By 6 a.m. he finally gave up. He showered, dressed and decided to walk down to the nearby Costa coffee shop as he did not want to be alone. The entire time, all he could think about was his wife. The fact was that Bob did not really know what to think. He wanted happiness for Karen and Rachel, even if that meant their relationship had become sexual. He had nothing against homosexual relationships, either male or female. However, he did not think it was unnatural or wrong that he was threatened. “I used to be a detective. I’d hunt criminals. It satisfied the hunger, for a while. But the gargoyle, it ... it is not easily satisfied. I grew hungrier, and killed my prey sometimes.”A detective. She smiled as she looked down, imagining the man dressed as a detective in the fifties, complete with fedora and trench coat. The smile faded, as she imagined him running down a criminal, catching them, then struggling to keep from ripping the person into literal bits, failing, and eating them while.