” I wondered if he’d been having me spied on. I was glad I kept a low profile; very little social life and no girlfriend. “I think it’s time...I brought you into the company, son.”“I still want to get my degree, Dad.”“You don’t need no stinkin’ degree when you have an executive position waiting for you in the family business. There’s money to be made and I’ll show you how to make it. Of course, the work is hard and the hours are long but the rewards are well worth the effort.” Well, this was. It's a delay- a necessary delay to be sure, but a delay nevertheless from what I actually want to do. And what I actually want to do is be with him. I look across the lake and realize it has only been a week since he left and only nineteen more days until his return, it seems like forever, yet his time here is so short. He travels too much. I tell him it is alright as I try to convince myself too. However, this Sunday I’m alone, and in my townhouse. I watch the geese begin to wake and stir.. " I'm sure the defense will see it that way too," said Jim.Jefferson snorted. "OK, I'll get you your samples. But you report anything you find to me ... got it?" I work for the city of New York," said Harper. "If I short circuit my boss, he'll have my ass." Your boss IS an ass," said Jefferson."You'll know something just before he does. That's the best I can do. I have to live here." You're on." The man smiled. "You really think there might be something here or are you just going through the. Not over seven years as they had claimed but just three. I saw the Judge try to stifle a smile, kept a straight face myself. Then he banged his gavel and said adverse claim is dismissed. I won that day, all by myself against probably a quarter of a million dollars of the best legal team money can buy. I should have been overjoyed, as I walked out of the courtroom it hit me that I didn’t even care. I wanted to be back at that tiny cafe, back with my Katey that I had neglected for so long. I.