"None of your god-damned business, Crenshaw. That's a certified check drawn on the Wells Fargo Bank. Are you goin' to accept that and clear out our ac...counts?"Crenshaw looked at the check, then at us, then back at the check. "I'll have to confirm that this is the correct amount," he grumbled, turning and walking back to a desk in the rear of the building. I saw the man he talked to look something up on his computer, look at the check, then nod at Crenshaw. The fat man was turning redder by the. He’s full of himself. Thinks he’s irresistible,” said Bea.“Yeah for sure,” said Ava. “But my man would not understand, if he ever found out that I’d been doing business, monkey business, with the guy.”“No, I wouldn’t suppose he would,” said Bea. “You and Julian still figurin’ on Valentine’s Day, right? I mean you haven’t said anything about it in the last several days.”“Yes, of course, and you’re still going to be my maid of honor, right,” said Ava.“Of course,” she said. “Just checkin’.”“Hmm,”. The sheets and comforter had been stripped off, leaving only the bare mattress and the box spring. The lamp and alarm clock that had been on the nightstand were gone. A mirror that had been hanging on his closet door was missing too. There was a hole in the wall also, with a piece of paper covering it until the repair man came later in the week to patch it up. It looked better than it had after he and the other guy had literally gone wall to wall from one end of his apartment to the other. What. “Definitely,” he said. “They can really cut loose.”“And Jerry?” Billy asked. “How different do you think she is?”Ian took a long sip from his glass. “Did you know that she likes watersports?”“Watersports?”Ian leaned closer and explained. Billy was quite shocked. “We discussed a lot of things on the way up,” he told him. “There’s quite a lot of things that she wants to try out.”“S-such as?”“I’ll tell you when they happen,” Ian told me.Billy was silent for a few moments.“Are you saying that the.