I'll pay for the room and a change of clothes for the night." The waiter brought the check and I paid it. I knew she had someone drop her off at the r...staurant. I owned a Cadillac Escalade ESV. I helped her in and we left the restaurant. We stopped at a department store and got some sleeping apparel. Then we went to the Hyatt Regency hotel downtown. "Mr. Markham,would you like your usual suite?" the desk clerk asked. "Yes I would Anthony." "Jonathan, you have a regular suite here?" "that I do. Michael has a father figure -- a little late, but he has one. Talk to me about your alternatives." I was doing okay," Jean blustered."Show me your little black book of boyfriends, then. Who's been in that pussy of yours in the last year? And don't TELL me you didn't need it -- you've been playing the voyeur and jilling yourself off all over the place!" Cletus!" And don't tell me you don't WANT it, either -- I've been in it and I know better!" Cletus! You just can't say things like that!" Jean. "Tears rolled down Bailey's cheeks."I never had a friend like you, Beth," she said. "I never had someone that I could talk to like I could talk to you. I didn't have someone who was willing to tell me I was full of shit sometimes."But I was too blinded by my feelings for R.J. and my own inadequacies to get past that and be a friend back to you. I would like to be friends like that now."Beth put her arm around Bailey's shoulder."I'd like that, too," she said.My only part in Amelie's surprise. The journal was a diary of his activities for what he called the Brotherhood. He recorded the heinous activities he had been ordered to do or supervise. The loose papers were invoices and receipts for items he had procured and expenses he had incurred. The journal also listed his income from his Brotherhood activities; he obviously never needed a client with all of the money he received from the Brotherhood. No wonder they were so pissed at him for screwing up! I knew that I had been in the.