`` can you- '' rough hands grabbed her-one locking tight around her waist , one circling her throat-as she was hauled back against a rock-hard body . `` she 's important to me , and i think i 'm important to her . '' then she handed him an envelope , shook his hand and left . it even felt better than beating lewis at chess . `` want me to come to the hospital with you ? '' it 's bigger than anything else we have . '' it hurts like hell every time . ) 