Chapter 7
Dimas swore. He’d almost caught up to the runner. Ten minutes into chasing someone he’d thought was Ida, he discovered Lenny, wearing a dress. Dimas would’ve still been in frazzled ignorance about the speed and agility of Ida, but for a lightning flash that illuminated the darkening late afternoon sky, and revealed Lenny’s face. Soon after Dimas found out who he was chasing, Lenny’s wig caught on a branch and he left it behind, afraid to be caught by Dimas.
Nightfall was approaching, and Dimas didn’t want to be running through pines, slipping on wet pine needles, dodging sharp thorny branches, or viny kudzu that had infiltrated this part of Florida too.
He sensed Lenny was tiring because Dimas was easily getting closer. As soon as Lenny broke free of the pine trees and ran thr
