He would wake to turn to see if it was all a bad dream… and then remember that it was indeed a ‘bad dream.’ The partners in his firm asked him t... take some time off, some time to himself and he agreed. He drank those first few months away and philandered with hookers. Then one day he found me. If I recall correctly, he was referred to me. He placed a phone call and when I answered, he couldn’t help but slur his words in a drunken Absinthe stupor. I promptly informed him that he was to go take a. "Last night's little payback was, hopefully, a one off eye for an eye. They took our shipment but we went a stage further, one of their labs. This could go two ways. One, they could decide the truce is over and bring on a full-scale assault. Two, they could take it as a counter attack and leave it at that. If they know what's good for them, and us, it will be the latter. Either way, I want everyone more vigilant than ever. In addition, we need to up the other incomes just in case they hit our. "Daphne laughed, "That's an old one but I will find outif your lying, I've left my wrap, give me the keys and I'll get it outthe car."She grabbed the keys and headed out and down to the car;with in two minutes she was back, her face ashen, "I think we have hadenough to drink, lets go to bed."Roland looked quizzical, "Some thing wrong?"She shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know, I went in to the garageand I'm sure some thing grabbed my foot, when I looked down the floor seemedto be moving, I'll. I think I'd known it all along, but I'd been so blinded by love that I couldn't make myself believe in my head what I knew in my heart.I knew if I married him, I'd be setting myself up for endless heartache. Better to get the heartbreak over with now, in one fell swoop, than to open myself up for pain in small doses, all the time, for however long it took to finally drive me away.And, trust me, my heart was breaking. I'd given him my heart and soul, even turned my back on my family, and he'd.