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"No one has ever photographed me as well as you did"

So that was it As usual, Louey was thinking about himself She wanted to roll her eyes and smack him She did neither, just smiled at him She really didn’t hate him most of the time, actually; she really didn’t even think of him except rarely, and even on those rare occasions she felt only mild dislike simply because she understood the bone-deep fears that always festered beneath the surface in him They occasionally even overwhelo Because she was soe he could wreak It was fear that was driving him now and so she said without rancor, "You’re an excellent subject, Louey You kno to mate with the camera Don’t be iraphers out there, but that’s neither here nor there" She stopped, then just shook her head "Never mind Sometimes I’m a fool Now, tell , if you want ets nasty And he will, Louey, he’ll get nastier than anything you can begin to io"

"You weren’t in Denver when he showed up three years ago, so just hoould you knohat your dear daddy does?"

"I remember one summer when I was here I elve years old and I woke up late, probably about ht under his study door and I could hear men’s voices I pushed the door open and looked inside" She shuddered from the force of the memory, but she said only, "Tell hioal, his focus never falters His patience is forone Tell him Or tell me Hoere you involved in this? Tell me the names of the men you owe money to"

Ramsey pulled back around the corner He’d just coo to bed It was late There stood Molly and Louey Santera facing off like two gunslingers in the hallway outside his bedroom door He’d heard her last feords He knew she didn’t really think that Louey had had anything to do directly with E But he was involved indirectly She was covering all the bases, which was really s it

Louey cast a furtive look at Gunther, who hadn’this ar you, didn’t I? You were Little Miss Sweet Innocence with a big crook for a father But I found that out too late"

"What do you ive you so "I wanted to fuck you, Molly, not marry you But your daddy found out about us He left me no choice"

"That’s not true, Louey, you know it’s not He didn’t even knoas dating you until I told hi at me like I’ until I told hi it up He was surprised"

He laughed, a nasty laugh that nearly froze Molly where she stood

"It’s not true," she said again She was cru as it had see this up, after all these years, just to hurt me"

"Sure, Molly Dolly, sure I am It turns out your old man had us followed-you didn’t know that, did you? Of course you didn’t Yeah, and he had irl fro rock star He probably knew to the ot a visit from him the very next day That was the day I really understood who your daddy actually is"

"You’re not lying? My father e to me?"

"You don’t think it was because I could have possibly wanted a wife, do you? Come on, Molly, even you’re not that stupid I always liked fresh-faced eager girls You looked at od I wasn’t about to deny ames with you so that you’d fall on your back for inity I’ve always preferred virgins And so I did, but then there was Daddy standing at ed "I reot his head shot off a while back-he had huge hands He grabbed round Then your daddy told s would be He told hter He told hter, he’d ly nobody would want to see it I believed him"