He turned it over to me, and after asking questions about their business and the challenges they had in their business, I made my presentation. During...the presentation, I referred to our other customers and, when they had similar problems or areas, how we helped them address each one. They liked our plan, but wanted some time to think it over."That's fine. We have to meet with another company in Miami in the morning, and then we'll be heading to Tampa. Would you prefer that we stop by here. Right sweety?’ The girl smiled warmly and put her arms around the boy. ‘Are you ready to be part of the family, kiddo?’ Gregory asked. The boy grinned. ‘Yes sir.’ — Michael returned home in a daze. Just the scale of Gregory’s little kingdom made his own experiments pale in comparison. How was it even possible to keep something like that under the radar? How many people would you have to manipulate, and how often? It was staggering. He’d made it sound so easy to avoid suspicion, but Michael. This way we could drive for only twenty minutes, and get away from everything. Since the house was way up on a hill, we would have our own secluded hide-away. We also checked with the realtor, and she told us that if we bought the house, we would not need to bring it up to code, that is we wouldn’t need to put in running water and a central heating system. So we bought the house and we immediately installed brighter light bulbs, took the sheets off the furniture, and cleaned the place up. Now. Nanette was working and holding down the fort at the farmhouse. She was going to go up to see Beca and Joan over the weekend.Livy, of course, had left for service on the fourteenth, eight days before we left for Kansas. They had been pretty weepy days for Rachel. And the rest of us.I was thankful Betty had agreed to drive. It gave all of us who were teens the opportunity to pretend we weren’t adults and let someone else be responsible. Of course, we all took our turns driving. Still, it was.