‘Christ, what a mess! I’ll have to get Andrew to clean up this mess for me. Hey, I wonder how he’s going with the barbeque…’ He wondered for... a moment if he should try to deflect Billie away from the BBQ area, so as not to let her catch Connie and her husband in a potentially compromising situation… but then suddenly, like a heaven-sent flash of divine inspiration, he had a perverted idea. Rick was confidently, almost arrogantly assured that his plan would draw Billie at last into the. Dennison wanted to be--right on the very top.Four years later, when he met Flo in Vancouver, he was more in a position to seriously think about getting married than in those rugged, leaner years scrounging for every cent. Business was surprisingly good right from the start, despite all the fatalistic warnings from the old-timers along the river. He shrugged off their admonitions as just what they were: fearful, empty predictions from frightened old men, afraid of new blood, new competition.He'd. ” Those were the words Gary Wang heard from his boss John Calhoun. His head was spinning, he must have misheard, or maybe it was some kind of joke. “Excuse me sir, what did you say?” “You heard me Wang. I said I want to fuck your pretty Asian bride and knock her up! You see my wife Doris, she’s gone through menopause and our k**s have grown up and left the house, so what we would really like is for your wife to carry a c***d for us.” John explained. Gary was stunned here at his own wedding. “You’re safe with me,” Page whispers. “I won’t let anything hurt you. Got that?”Lisa nods.Page gives the girl a curt nod. “Run.”They leap from the tree, page in the lead, pulling Lisa behind her. They run in the opposite direction of the sound, not once looking back. Rocks and fallen logs bite at their naked feet. Branches and vinery whip at their exposed skin. They persevere, running like their lives depend on it, and they do. They run until their breathing becomes labored and then they run.