We finally broke apart and simply looked at each other then she buried her head in my hair and hugged me tight.“Thank you,” came the muffled voice...as she gave me another squeeze.“I was scared to open the door,” I confessed.“You’ll never know how close I was to going into the room across the hall.”“And you,” I said, rolling onto my back and pulling her on top of me, “will never know how glad I am that you didn’t.”She giggled and started kissing me again. I had one hand on the back of her head. The straw that broke the camel’s back came when Brad asked me if I wanted to come into his room and play some CoD. Which was something that he’d never done before. “Sure.” I answered too quickly. “Uh, Brad, go on ahead.” Mom said as she got up from the kitchen table. “Sam will be there shortly.” Brad gave me a quick worried look but left for his room. “Sam, what the shit?” mom immediately hissed as soon as Brad was out of sight. Jack was out in the garage so there was no reason to worry. "Matt had only a couple of years of experience but he knew this was not how a business usually operated. He wondered why he had been hired because the group routinely rejected his ideas. He had told them it was ludicrous to keep so much cash unbudgeted. He had been appalled that the group had placed almost half of its net worth into an educational trust. When he first read about Subarctic Enterprises, he had dreams of just what he could do with an investment portfolio of $500 million.He figured. “Just tell him you have good news and bad news,” I replied. “Tell him you’re okay, but that you wrecked the car. He may be ticked about the wreck, but he’ll be glad you’re alive and okay.” After dialing the number, I handed her my cell phone. She told her dad she had wrecked and that she was okay. Since she didn’t know exactly where were located, I told her were about a half mile north of the Georgetown exit. She reassured her father she was okay. She handed me back my cell phone and thanked me.