J'ai vraiment aimé cette femme. Ce fut pourtant très tumultueux.. au début.. La première fois que je l'ai aperçue c'était lors de l'anniversaire...de Philippe un vieux copain nous avions fait notre 6eme ensemble et nous avons été jusqu'au bac et après c'est dire.. Pourtant nos relations sont toujours restées amicales, pas d'histoire de nanas. Il n'était pas au courant de mes frasques du moins pas vraiment mais on se rencontrait souvent et souvent je n'avais pas la même compagne.... Donc.. A cette. In the lobby we shook hands and did the manly hug... Back in my office we caught up on the business stuff and he told me that I had quickly made the right changes at Brouden from his viewpoint as a customer. Then he said, "What are you doing tonight? Remember my daughter Mel? She is with me on this trip. She and I decided we needed some special Dad-Daughter time together so we have had a casual week-long drive here. Join us for dinner tonight." I would love too, so happens my daughter is in. .. her. To see you."After everything he'd said, after everything he'd done, and hadn'tdone, he wanted to see her now!"I've been thinking," he admitted."You should have done that last year when she needed you!" Ipractically snarled."It's not easy!" No it wasn't and it isn't and you made it worse."Miss Vogel's behemoth voice cut through the chatter in the hall andsilence fell. She started into her speech, the crafted words aboutachievement and success, hard work and teamwork that went into a. I couldn’t help it if I didn’t want to buy expensive shit, or go on a vacation to the Bahamas. I liked just being me.January ended with no word on the FBI investigations. They looked into my finances, but I had my books audited first thing after Addie’s call. The accountant assured me that there was nothing shady to find. I paid my taxes on every penny of traceable income.It was on the first Monday in February, when a strange car pulled into the driveway. I walked to the door with my hand close.