At three thirty I was caught flat-footed as Peggy drove out of the parking garage and headed across the Galleria shopping mall as I followed her. She ...raveled south about four blocks and then turned into the Loft Condominiums and parked in a covered parking space with the number 356 over it. I pulled into a space about fifty yards down from her and watched as she got out of her car with her purse and her power suit in her arms and took her picture with my little trusty cell phone again, framing. I need to get my fix. I need my dose. - Oh, and how many did you empty?- Last night?- Yes.- Six or seven men. Not counting hubby this morning. So I guess Eight, altogether.- You'll have problems with the hospital staff.- I doubt it. My patients already recognize me. Whenever I enter the ward at night, they call me "Lil’ Red Riding Hood" ... and they know what’s about to happen.- Red Riding Hood? Forgive me for asking, but...- Oh, Carmencita laughs, it's silly. You see, the first time ... the. ‘I’d quit the first time someone died on me. I may be a little off the wall, but I love life too damn much, the good and the bad.’ Reaching out, Joshua stroked Rufus’s head. ‘I got competition…’ He gave her a teasing look. He wanted to see her smile again, she was like Annie, and she took on a sad, serious look when the word death was mentioned. ‘So where is the park?’ ‘Just up the street a couple blocks, we won’t be gone too long.’ He shook his head. ‘My leg feels pretty good, I’ll walk up. You saved my life."Then she turned and rushed out before I could refuse the twenty. I looked at the clerk and said, "Oh well, they say that found money is lucky money."I handed him the bill and told him to give me five Cash Five quick picks, five Colorado Lottery quick picks and five PowerBall without the power play. While he was pushing buttons on the machine I looked down through the glass countertop at the scratch tickets. When the clerk handed me the lottery tickets I pointed to a scratch.