I’d estimated the journey would be around 45 minutes to one hour but ended up sat two streets away with twenty minutes to spare. Again I nearly dro...e off but something made me put the car back into gear and drive round the corner. Matt had mentioned in one of the texts that the house number was 5 and there was a black Astra on the drive. I’d not even noticed, that in his acceptance e-mail he hadn’t said what the house number was, such was the turmoil my head was in.He lived on a quiet. We are the industry, not you dirt grubbing grape farmers. You should back off before you piss us off. Obstacles to the lobby have a way of – being removed.’ Before I could respond, he pushed his way past me and out of the building lobby. God, but that man is a prick. I had dealt with plenty of decent people as distributors but some few could be real asses. I straightened my coat and took the elevator up to the third floor. I sat in the well-appointed waiting room, chatting with the secretary. Used my keys to open the door and went inside. Same house. Lived there for the last year and a half. Did note that without my input into the situation, the general housekeeping took a noticeable downturn.I had just put the boxes down when a male voice greeted me."Hey, Jess. 'Sup?"I looked. Justin Conner. All too frequent participant in my life before. He ran in some of the same circles that intersected with mine. Matter of fact, he and I intersected pretty vigorously a time or two. Part of the. He had her chair out and her plate in front of it by the time she got there. He seated her and sat himself.Richard and Judy were at the table with their kids. Bill called the kids Marilyn and Pete in separate sentences early in the conversation. He knew that she wasn’t as conscious of kids and their names as he was -- even high-school kids, whom these seemed to be. They called her “Mrs. Pierce.” Even so, she suspected that she was closer to the kids’ ages than to their parents’.When Grace.