" When are you going? I need a few minutes to getpresentable." How about we pick you up in an hour; we will get somethingto eat, and then go spend, sp...end, spend!" Shopping"Donna dear, look at Alice; you could pick up a few fashiontips from her. See how her legs look in those three-inchpumps?" whined Marilyn over her watercress salad."Mother Wadsworth, I don't know why I am here. Alice is nota woman and is never going to be, as does not want to be.And Alice does not have two screaming children. He has been spending a lot more time with her. It wouldn’t surprise me if he asked her to get married.” Sal said.“Really?”“Anyway, Bruno was out in Las Vegas for a while and Moe is there now checking on what Bruno was involved in and with whom.” Sal said.“OK, that I guess that’s a starting point.”“Luca, why don’t you just go to Kay?” Sal said.“She has her own life her own goals. I don’t fit.”“How do you know that?”“After she found out about Sonny, I don’t know what she will think of me.”“Is. " Up to you," I said, resisting the urge to swallow the lump in my throat or cough it up and spit. The ghost of Christmas past was about to visit, I feared. I could hear the chains clanking.He rocked back in his chair while I thought of Marley's ghost."He says you beat up your wife and threatened your kid. You do that?" Yep," I said, tasting bile and nodding. "I was drunk." You still drinking?" Jepperson asked, lowering his eyebrows, tucking in his chin and trying to look mean or serious or. ”“Yes she is and I am not complaining but my god Keisha I never realized how beautiful you were until just now.”“Well thank you darling. You’re not too bad yourself. What are you 6 feet?”“No, 5 foot 11”“And what do you weigh about 200 pounds.”“Close enough.”“And I know you’re in good shape because you and Mike work out all the time. So you’re not to bad yourself.”Keisha flashed me a smile that sent shivers down my spine. For the first time in a long time, I wanted to fuck someone other than my.