He knew he needed to lock Karen down quick or he’d lose her for sure. Billy saw how people were attracted to Karen, how they wanted to be close to h...r, wanted to take her picture. He was skating on thin ice and he knew it. Billy wasn’t totally incompetent. He pretty quickly got Karen pregnant when she was still only nineteen. The consequential “shot gun” wedding was just what he had planned to prevent losing Karen once she realized what a puffball he really was inside. True, he had been the. "You! I'll rip your head off." she screamed.Freddie bounded to his feet as Sam flew by him in her famous headlong charge. And on the receiving end of that charge was Shelby Marx, clad in jeans, a pullover top and black shoes. She lifted her hands in defence."Sam please. Don't. I don't want to hurt you."Sam never slowed, Shelby dodged sideways at the last moment and the angry blonde flew by without touching her. Waving her arms wildly in a fashion that would have made Freddie laugh had the. ‘Michael, what are you doing here?’ ‘I’m your date for the night, Cynthia,’ he said. ‘Um, Michael…’ the blonde matriarch began. ‘I know about your little party and I decided that I’m going with you,’ Mike told her, firmly. ‘You’re going to introduce me to all of your rich friends. Especially the rich bitches like you.’ ‘But, I can’t!’ she protested. ‘Who will I introduce you as?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Mike said. ‘Your new husband, lover and dominator, maybe? Maybe not. I’m sure you’ll come up with. Ella frowned at me. Lawson burped and set down a bottle wrapped in a paper bag.Irritations aside, I felt that someone had something to say and didn’t want to say it. “What?” I asked the room in general.“Chloe has a point,” Michael said. “Dana rarely has anything like that custom ordered and ready to use if she doesn’t believe it’ll be needed.”“So, everyone believes that even though I’m not looking for another Stirpe, I’ll still need the suit?” I asked.Everyone except Lawson nodded.I didn’t want.