Where her own lawyers were concerned, Amanda had likewise informed them of Sean’s equal status to her own, and they had accepted this edict warmly a...d willingly.The business update that Jerome Thorndike had provided on Wallace Holdings also provided Sean with confirmation of his sense that Amanda didn’t need to trust people. As she had been demonstrating to him since they had met, Amanda had an innate ability to know a person’s heart. When she shared responsibility with a person or assigned. She grinned. When we were alone, she said, "Do you want to come to my house and paint my bedroom ceiling?" I nodded, "I can do that."We picked a day we both had the night shift and I went to her house around 9 a.m. I showed up in painting pants and brought a ladder and brushes. When I came to the door she saw me and laughed."What?" So you really came to paint!" she replied.Uh...yeah?She was dressed in a housecoat of some sort and her hair was wet from a shower. When she let me into the house, I. Conversations flowed as freely as the frothy, salty expanse beside us.I told her about my new job and my trip to Sydney. She teased me aboutwriting for Dolly Magazine but I think she was secretly jealous. I toldher about trying my best efforts to steal Aaron away from Lilly and shetold me I was an idiot. Dot then told me that without my company shehad thrown herself into her schoolwork and was now two months ahead. Itfelt good to tell each other things."So what brought you around tonight to. ” He sort of hugged me with a brief squeeze across my shoulders. A moment of quiet between the pair of us allowed my attention to shift to the sounds of others with us. One young man phoned a supervisor to let them know he and a colleague were stuck. A woman was spouting abuse at someone about the situation, but clearly she was not speaking to anyone responsible for the malfunction. “Of course, you’re assuming another accident would be a bad thing.” My mind had drifted so quickly that I.