He strolled throughthe doors with confidence. Two of Amanda's employees smiled at him as hewalked towards Amanda's office. Joe opened a door and took ...is place inher office. Amanda was the local manager of a large company. She was the head of oneof the company's six small offices in the region. Although the companydictated her goals from the top, she set the office policies that weredesigned to meet those goals. She was in charge of ten employees, whichincluded Ted, her personal assistant. She. Evidently the old-boys network was alive and well.Bob, ignoring her, continued. "He said it sounded like the job wasn't done and told me that I had been drafted. I thought he was just pulling my good leg, but an hour later I had an encrypted message from him with a non-disclosure form and a contract that had to be signed and returned. There was a very nice wire transfer and instructions to report to a lady named Minerva over at the Urban Renewal building. This Minerva lady, who looked a lot. I need to get the money from the kitchen. How much was it?" "It is twenty-two eleven," she said as she stepped in. "Okay, I will be right back." Jeff left the pretty delivery girl in the foyer. He glanced at the TV to make sure that she could see what was on the screen and not Stephanie herself. Pleased that it was so, he went off the kitchen to watch a bit. There was a place that he could watch the delivery girl without her seeing him. The girl stood there. I would guess she's from the Indiana, Illinois border area. Billie chews her fingernails to the quick and has ballpoint pen ink stains under the edges of her nails."That's all I can remember, except for the fact that I saw her picture on the coffee table in Othneal's mother's house, and it didn't register until just now. I'm sorry, sir. You deserved better from me..."The silence that followed was The Judge giving orders and gathering information. Then he was back. "Noah? You saw here. You spoke.