I wasn’t afraid of Vito but there was no need to poke a bear in his den. He looked at me for several seconds and I thought he was going to tell one ...f the trucks to throw me out. Instead he pointed at the chair across from him. ‘I haven’t seen you since you tried to hang that gambling rap on me a few years ago. What’da you want Steele?’ ‘As I remember we couldn’t get the evidence to arrest you. You were too smart for us,’ I said with a smile. ‘Some would have manufactured evidence just to put. Curious I turned one of the dials and was surprised when everything around me stopped. Time froze! The raucous noise of the tractors stopped instantly as they stood frozen in that instant. A flock of seagulls were frozen in mid flight, seeming to hang in the air. Everyone around me stood perfectly still in the strange eerily quiet junkyard. I turned the dial back to where it had been and everything started again. I pushed one of the buttons expecting something spectacular to happen but it just. As you may know, Hamish is now a voluntary slave and could leave my service if he gives a month’s notice but as yet, he hasn’t sufficient funds.” She didn’t know this but wasn’t given time or the opportunity to question it. “Yesterday I had luncheon with Arthur Beaumont and his wife to discus terms and found him reluctant to take you back and he thoroughly enjoyed the peaceful atmosphere now existing at home and welcomed the increase in his bank balance.” Throughout the conversation she noticed. I'm not sure what sort of look was on my face. I know I was angry and I felt betrayed again."Suzette doesn't want anything from you," Marie said. "She doesn't want child support; you're not even listed on the birth certificate. If she would have had her way, you'd have never known. She got married last summer."The reason she decided not to come today was because she's scared of how you'd react. She never told you because she didn't want you to think she was trying to trap you. You'd gone.