"Saturdays were a busy day for Billy Tranton and thus in his absence, it was a busy day for Jake. He expected to sit at the desk most of the day, taki...g calls, or returning those from people who left a message on the second line while he was talking to someone on the first line. There were eight dogs about ready for delivery to a new owner who would attend up to two weeks training with the animal. Billy had the full training schedule documented for each animal, their pedigree was traced, and. They wanted to know if there was any truth to the e-mail that site inspections were going to happen, and how soon. They did make routine calls to each other to follow effective sales patterns and to make sure they were not out of the loop on things that worked. It was sort of a manager's insiders club.The word quickly spread that bosses showed up at Baltimore on the very first day and took cars based on sales and reservations. Then they showed up at Charlotte with a brief case with fill in the. Sometime in the past, I didn’t even remember how or when, that routine included shutting the door, and not undressing in front of me, and when she would reappear, she would be dressed again in nightgowns that revealed nothing. Just one of the changes for the worse that had snuck up on me, slowly, without my really noticing. As she entered the bedroom from the bathroom, I intercepted her, and standing there tried to kiss her. She avoided my mouth, and gave me a peck on the cheek. I didn’t. "I'll let you know what I plan to do."I walked out the doorWhat did I want? What did I know?I had an accusation from Sabrina the reliability of which was backed up by her telling my father and supposedly trying to figure out what to do.She seemed to be telling the truth. I had not seen any indications of deception in her behavior or her body language.My father had made an allegation about Jeff's motive for pursuing me. There was no doubt they had a loud, acrimonious argument about something.