`` is another one going to hit ? '' at length she turned her head , stared at him . lean back in that raft , stare up at the lavender sky . sounds like he 's on his front porch or in the yard . '' `` did you really ask him to do that to her , nix ? kim grabbed her suitcase out of the trunk and walked down the front walkway to the door . it sounds like youre threatening me . his mother had passed away asking for the book and he had n't been able to get it . 