I was able to close two of the Action Items. Ten minutes later, the door opened and Sergeant Previn entered.“Afternoon, Geraldine. Ready to start th... meeting?”“Hi, Jon. Yes, I’m almost ready. All I need to do is turn everything on, connect my laptop, and bring up the schedule.” A few moments later, Geraldine was done and sat down at the table with me. Over the past months, we had dropped my title and her rank, and we were on a first name basis, when no one else was around.“How are things going. ‘Yes. Sir. My name is Thomas Ballentine. I’m an associate for DarkWalk Investigations. I was wondering if I might come in and speak to…’ He flipped the pages on his little notebook. ‘To Mr. Dimitri Chernovich?’ The tall man opened the door wider and ushered him into the massive foyer. ‘Please have a seat in the study. I’ll let Mr. Chernovich know you are here,’ he said, sweeping his long arms in an arc toward the second door on the left. Then he strode off up the cascading double stairs.. The Roarks were Danny and Sherry. At one time they were husband and wife. Now, they’d been divorced for a little over two years. But since life and finances were complicated, the fifty-somethings elected to continue running the business in tandem. Danny had worked for decades as a general contractor and Sherry as a banker before founding this new venture.A big believer in drinking the Kool-Aid, Danny Roark purchased one of the tiny homes for himself and set about creating a community for the. I’m half her sister, half her stalker and there really isn’t a middle ground. It fucks with my head. She fucks with my head. With friends like her, who needs drugs.Dannie fingers a cigarette out from Thomas’s cigarette case, lights it, and inhales some smoke. She turns towards me and breathes the smoke into my mouth. It takes all my concentration to – I don’t know – to something. Maybe it’s the alcohol and the drugs, and maybe it’s the sleep deprivation of sophomore year but Dannie is.